Right now the earth is likely the most peaceful it's ever been in the history of humanity. This actually has been documented in a few studies.
At the moment there isn't a full scale, country-against-country, actual war going on anywhere in the world, which is simply astonishing and virtually unheard of in world history. You have a variety of civil wars and guerilla insurgencies going on, as usual, but many of the worst ones have stopped or simmered down in the last few years.
And there really aren't any natural disasters recently that weren't routine, normal events.
People forget that we truly only have a two hundred years, at most, of recorded weather history for this country. Then they try to make something horrible that happens now seem like the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of man. Nothing is put into perspective.