Optimistic Statistics
-Since 1990,global extreme poverty has decreased from 35% to 9%. By 2030, it will be 5%.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
-Since 1950, global life expectancy has increased from 45.8 years to 72 years. That means humans live 0.4 years longer per year, which is crazy.
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
-The world is gaining vegetation, and the number of plants is increasing. Since 2003 plant growth has increased by over 4 billion tonnes (measured in carbon). Nearly every country is reforesting.
https://www.iflscience.com/environme...tting-greener/
-Global literacy has increased from 42% in 1960 to 86% in 2015
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
-Almost half the world is now middle class, and that number grows by 150 million each year
https://www.brookings.edu/research/t...iddle-class-2/
-In 2002, there were 442,000 homicides on earth. In 2017, there were only 405,000 homicides. This is despite the fact that the global population increased by almost 2 billion people in that time span.
https://ourworldindata.org/homicides
-Global hunger has almost been eradicated. Child labour is now very rare. More hours are spent on leisure time. More money is also spent on leisure.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
-Global hunger is quickly being eradicated. Child labour is now very rare. More hours are spent on leisure time. More money is also spent on leisure.
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/72729...racy-good-news
It's easy to think that the world is going into the dumpster. But really, it has been improving in almost every human metric.
If only the pacific garbage patch and habitat loss could be handled as well as these other issues.