Its experience of the extent to which
human brutality can go, of the fury that can
be unleashed when the
human animal
is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of
great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how
great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men,
individually and in the collective.
You say that there have
been climate extremes and tragedies in recent years (as in all years), then you say that they can not
individually be attributed to
human activity (burden of proof off), then you say that there
is a prediction that such events, with
greater frequency and magnitude, will
be due to
human activity (the prediction exists, and you
are only claiming the existence of a prediction).