A rash of optimistic new books argue that all the essential statistics show the world is making progress, both materially and ethically.
The American authors do their best to lift the gloom created by a news agenda dominated by world recession, wars, floods and famine.
The latest to appear is The Secret Peace: Exposing the Positive Trend of World Events by Jesse Richards, with its theory that the world is a nice place — and getting better.
(READ the story in the UK’s Guardian)
It is nice to know this as most of them are in quite desperation!
hope progress continues to spread like wildfire everywhere on the planet….