WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! – AGAIN
Matt Ridley observes in his excellent book The Rational Optimist: Despite a doubling of the world population, even the raw number of people living in absolute poverty (defined as less than a 1985 dollar a day) has fallen since the 1950s, let alone the percentage living in such absolute poverty. That number is, of course, still all too horribly high, but the trend is hardly a cause for despair. The … Continue reading