Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072189P5Q |
| Format Type | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
George P. Wood said A Case for Global Optimism. “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days,” wrote Franklin Pierce Adams, “than a bad memory.” The good old days, in other words, weren’t so good. Indeed, if Johan Norberg is to be believed, the good old days are right now.Drawing on a variety of social science data, Norberg points to ten ways the world has progressed over the last three centuries:• Food is plentiful and cheap.• Clean water and good sanitation are increasingly avai. "58% of those who voted for Britain to leave the EU said that life is worse today than it was thirty years ago" according to Ian Mann. The headline of a Financial Times article ahead of new year 2015 read: ‘Battered, bruised and jumpy – the whole world is on edge’.58% of those who voted for Britain to leave the EU said that life is worse today than it was thirty years ago.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified to the US Congress: “I will personally attest to the fact that [the world] is more dangerous than it has ever been.”How are we to deal with . Alan Cook said These are the Best of Times. All pessimists (such as myself) should read this book. Check that. Everybody should read this book. It tells about what few people realize--that we are living in the best of times, and that the human race has made enormous progress in the past few hundred years, and even in the past fifty years. And it is continuing as we speak. Norbert talks about the following topics: food, sanitation, life expectancy, poverty, violence, the environment, literacy, freedom and equality. We have
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, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define our species. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. 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. From an examination of official data from such institutions as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Johan Norberg paints a portrait of a better future ahead