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That's the beauty about being a history buff. Looking through headlines and the amount of historical events that would happen in any given year, and the reality is things have been relatively calm over the last 30 years, and we are just now facing the reality many people have lived through for decades before.
The only thing that is really different about our situation compared to the past would be the climate crisis, and even then, on a smaller scale, dealing with sudden changes in the climate isn't unheard of. The dustbowl, the mini ice age, the industrial deforestation of Europe and North America and the draining of the Aral sea come to mind at the top of my head, and many countries in the global south have been dealing with the effects of climate change for a long time already. The reason it's news now is its actually starting to affect people in wealthy countries.
Considering where health, science and safety are now compared to the past, there is still no other point in time I would rather live.