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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1167675)	9/30/2019 11:04:08 AM
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You’re the traitor... a feckless lying fool. ‘Here are a bunch of charts that prove the world is better than ever’…. Carpe Diem CARPE DIEM September 27, 2019 …. is the title of an article by David Harsanyi in The Federalist, here’s the opening: In a recent column, I noted that young people like Greta Thunberg should be thankful for the uniquely peaceful and wealthy world they’ve inherited. Of course, whenever I write pieces that point out that life has vastly improved for billions of people despite climate change, angry readers inundate me with links about glaciers and coral reefs and heat waves. These events are allegedly apocalyptic proof that we’ve left a rickety planet to our kids. Never once do any of these emailers consider the tradeoffs that accompany the authoritarian system they propose to fix climate change. For many, of course, the authoritarian system is the point. Now, I can’t disprove forecasts about our impending collapse. But I can point out that Malthusian environmentalists have been consistently and spectacularly wrong going on five decades and that even in a warming planet, nearly every quantifiable measure of human existence is improving. The retreat of socialism — exactly the kind of system environmentalists would like to bring back to fight global warming — has led to extraordinary gains in the most important aspects of human existence over the past 30-40 years. Here are just a few: 1. Capitalism is eradicating extreme poverty (see chart above, showing the significant decline in the share of the world’s population living in poverty from 42.2% in 1981 to only 10% in 2015. By headcount, there was a 61% reduction over that period for people living in poverty, from nearly 2 billion in 1981 to fewer than three-quarters of a million in 2015). While not displayed here, David Harsanyi provides charts in his article for the following trends showing an improving and more prosperous world: 2. Significant reduction (almost 50%) in the number of people without access to an improved drinking water source since 1990. 3. Remarkable decline in infant mortality rates, which have fallen by more than 55% since 1990. 4. About a 50% reduction in the number of children dying before age 5. 5. Significant increases in life expectancy — by 24 years since 1960 for low-income countries and by 12 years for high-income countries. 6. Significant reductions in internal and external conflicts, battle-related deaths and genocide. 7. The fatality rate in the US due to weather events has declined significantly over the last 100 years. 8. Climate-related deaths globally have fallen by about 95% over the last century. 8. Emissions of air pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide have fallen to all-time historical record lows in recent years. 9. Global death rates from air pollution have fallen by half since 1990. 10. The traffic fatality rate in the US has fallen by 95% over the last 100 years. 11. In the US, gun homicides and overall homicides, school shootings, mass shootings, and fatal police shootings have all fallen. 12. The world illiteracy rate has fallen in half since 1950 from about 50% to now about 15%. 13. Global primary school enrollments have increased dramatically. 14. World per capita GDP (in constant dollars) has increased almost three-fold since 1960 from $3,757 to $10,881.