This is the greatest time in human history to be alive.
There is less poverty, less starvation, lower infant morality, higher life expectancy, greater access to sewage and running water, higher levels of education, medical care that is unsurpassed.
Much of the world’s population lives a better, healthier life than Kings and Queens of only a few hundred years ago.
No more: chamber pots; no anaesthetic dental work; amputation for an infected cut; ten years in a gulag for ... something.
This is the greatest time in human history to be alive.
Yet, differences between the rich and the poor are getting deeper and deeper. In fact we've come to the point when some places like the LDCs are actually worse off than they were 50 years ago. But it's the third world and we don't like to talk about it because we'd have to admit we've been exploiting it for centuries.
There is less poverty, less starvation, lower infant morality, higher life expectancy, greater access to sewage and running water, higher levels of education, medical care that is unsurpassed.
Much of the world’s population lives a better, healthier life than Kings and Queens of only a few hundred years ago.
No more: chamber pots; no anaesthetic dental work; amputation for an infected cut; ten years in a gulag for ... something.
This is the greatest time in human history to be alive.