You are living in approximately the safest time ever. The Internet has just made civil unrest visible when it would just be page 3 in a newspaper before that you wouldn't care about.
People living in the 80s in the US were in a war-zone by today's standard. Lead was in the paint and the gas not long before that.
Aside from the steadily growing number of natural disasters happening every year.
1. Checkout Forensic Architecture's reconstructed timeline of the Beirut explosion. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...
I think that, due to global warming, the actual number is increasing.
Problems can have very bad consequences without literally killing us all.
We have things to be concerned about (PFAS and microplastics for instance), but there are a bunch of areas where massive progress has been made in the last 50 years.
Public health says biggest issue today is overconsumption, e.g. almost 50% obesity rates. For environmental concerns that we have control over, PM2.5 is my top (asthma, etc.)
My advice would be to nourish and exercise your animal with the assumption that you'll reach 80.
The biggest problem we have today is that kids have no context that tells them how great they have it, so they're like putty in the hands of those who would use them to gain political power. Like some kind of emotional vampire, those vested political interests gain power from your fear and your willingness to be mobilized by it.
Most of us who have a few decades on you would gladly take another 70 years of youthful existence to experience life and see where this world goes next.
In my line, male smokers/heavy drinkers die 20+ years earlier. My dad and brother died in poor health at 58 and 59 respectively. The men who didn't serially abuse themselves lived into their 70s to late 80s - generally on their own.
I mean, you're not wrong, the best thing one can do for their mental health is avoid social media and current events. But it may not always be completely practical.