… is from page 13 of the late Hans Rosling’s 2018 book, Factfulness:
Step-by-step, year-by-year, the world is improving. Not on every single measure every single year. Though the world faces huge challenges, we have made tremendous progress. This is the fact-based worldview.
DBx: Let’s hope that this happy trend is not reversed, or even stalled for long, by humanity’s insane overreaction to covid-19.