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Progress

Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

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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.

It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that 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, political commentator Johan Norberg traces just how far we have come in tackling the issues that define 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. Dramatic, uplifting, and counterintuitive, Progress is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden world.

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Johan Norberg lays out a compelling set of data points that support a mind shift to support for progress, as opposed to some speculative perspective on man’s selfish devastation of the planet. We continuously get better, and we must collectively acknowledge this as fact. With the information provided, we can have a conversation on what is actually happening, the incredibly positive impacts it has had on the acceleration of health in the developing countries, and where we can go responsibly in the future. Incoherence from our political “leaders” is no longer tolerable from the people who put them in place. Bravo for a work well done!

Information is Power

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In today’s fear porn media hellscape this book gives historical perspective and an optimistic view of the progress we have made as humans.

Overcome fear with facts

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