I like your line of thinking. There is a lack of empathy and compassion thesedays.
kaliyug and satyeyug are just blanket statements about the well being of the world . Due to lack of resources because of population boom everyone is struggling to make do with the available resources and lots of people are being more greedy than before leaving less and less for the rest of the people, thus contributing to worsening of the general situation otherwise known as kaliyug.