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Progress: Ten Reasons To Look Forward To The Future

It’s all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we’re bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is – Brexit, financial collapse, unemployment, poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. Indeed, our world now seems to be on the brink of collapse, and yet:We’ve made more progress over the last 100 years than in the first 100,000285,000 more people have gained access to safe water every day for the last 25 yearsIn the last 50 years world poverty has fallen more than it did in the preceding 500Contrary to what most of us believe, our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.Examining official data from the United Nations, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues facing our species. While it’s true that not every problem has been solved, we do now have a good idea of the solutions and we know what it will take to see this progress continue. Counter-intuitive, dramatic and uplifting, Progress is a call for renewed

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Oneworld Publications (October 11, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1780749503

ISBN-13: 978-1780749501

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Best Sellers Rank: #5,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #13 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Anthropology > General #85 in Books > Science & Math > Behavioral Sciences #146 in Books > History > World

Finally some good collection of facts that show how far we have come. But also make us think that in 20 years our children will regard much of what we do and think as barbaric.

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