From The Spectator:
Why 2012 was the best year ever
"It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the
history of the world. That sounds like an extravagant claim, but it is
borne out by evidence. Never has there been less hunger, less disease or
more prosperity. The West remains in the economic doldrums, but most
developing countries are charging ahead, and people are being lifted out
of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded. The death toll inflicted
by war and natural disasters is also mercifully low. We are living in a
golden age."
"To listen to politicians is to be given the opposite impression — of a
dangerous, cruel world where things are bad and getting worse. This, in
a way, is the politicians’ job: to highlight problems and to try their
best to offer solutions. But the great advances of mankind come about
not from statesmen, but from ordinary people. Governments across the
world appear stuck in what Michael Lind describes as an era of ‘turboparalysis’ — all motion, no progress. But
outside government, progress has been nothing short of spectacular."
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