![]() ![]() Packed with information, backed up by meticulous research, and bolstered with solid data, Ridley covers the breadth of human history from the Neolithic era to the current 21 st century. At no point, however, does Ridley deny the obvious poverty, misery, and violence we also see in the world. Access to food, clothing, fuel, and shelter has been getting cheaper with each passing decade. We are living longer, healthier, wealthier, safer lives than at any time in the past. ![]() In an almost companion piece to Peter Diamandis’ Abundance and Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature, Ridley shows how food availability, income, and lifespan are up while disease, child mortality, and violence are down. The central case Ridley makes is that life is getting better almost everywhere you look at it. Along the journey, Ridley not only describes how things are getting better, but he also describes why. ![]() Join renowned science author Matt Ridley as he leads the reader gently away from the cloudy, gloomy bogs of pessimism and firmly towards the sunny cheerful uplands of optimism. “An elegant and devastating rejoinder to all the gloom-merchants everywhere.” – Boris Johnson ![]()
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