Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future Audiobook (Free)

It’s on the tv screen, in the documents, and in our minds. Each day we’re bludgeoned by information of how lousy everything is-financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, food cravings, war. However the seldom acknowledged reality is that our improvement over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By nearly every index you care to identify, issues are markedly better today than they have ever been for nearly everyone alive.

Examining official data from the United Nations, World Standard bank, and World Health Company, political commentator Johan Norberg traces how far we have can be found in tackling conditions that establish our species. While it’s accurate that don’t assume all problem has been solved, we do now have an excellent idea of the solutions and we realize what it will require to find out this progress continue. Dramatic, uplifting, and counter-intuitive, Improvement is a call for optimism in our pessimistic, doom-laden globe.