16 Bad Things Decreasing

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From Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Edition , by By Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling



or on Google books, pg 61:
https://books.google.com/books?id=j-4yDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=factfulness&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrnsmFkeLaAhUSr1kKHY6RCckQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=16&f=true

Looks interesting.

From http://time.com/5224618/bill-gates-hans-rosling-factfulness/

Bill Gates Says This Book Is 'One of the Most Important' He's Ever Read

By SARAH BEGLEY
April 3, 2018

Millions of people have tuned in for Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling’s TED Talks over the years, and the videos caught the attention of at least one famous fan: Bill Gates. Gates and his wife Melinda went on to befriend Rosling, who gained his global audience with insights on how data can help lead to better outcomes in global poverty and health.

Rosling died in February, 2017, but he leaves behind the new book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, coauthored with his son, Ola Rosling, and daughter-in-law, Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Gates has called the book “one of the most important” he’s ever read, and one of his two favorites of this year so far. TIME caught up with Gates to talk about what makes the book — and Rosling — so special.

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More at link.

[TheSmarterDog]

1. And, never forget that our adversaries work every day to increase each of them.

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[John Fante]

2. Steven Pinker wrote a similar book on the subject.

"Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined".

For the "the world is going to hell in a handbasket" crowd, the book really puts things in perspective.

[Aristus]

5. I read it.

It made me much more optimistic about the future.

[John Fante]

6. Agreed. Progressives throughout history have carried

they day, and will continue to do so in the future. Trumpism is a threat that must be taken seriously, but it will ultimately be destroyed. I have no doubt.

[CrispyQ]

3. Don't show Trump, or once he dismantles everything Obama, he'll start on this.

[Sneederbunk]

4. 17. Trump's term in office decreases every day.