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Norberg, J: Progress


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2017
A title that gives us ten reasons to look forward to the future, "Progress" highlights the positive progress we've made and analyses the statistics to bring us uplifting statistics: In the last 50 years, world poverty has fallen more than it did in the preceeding 500 years.
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ISBN-13: 9781786070654
ISBN-10: 1786070650
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:MMP
Editura: Oneworld Publications

Descriere

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 100,000
285,000 more people have gained access to safe water every day for the last 25 years
In the last 50 years world poverty has fallen more than it did in the preceding 500

Contrary 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 hope in defiance of the doom-mongering of politicians and the media.