It's amazing how many people don't get that these three things can, and are, true at the same time. Yes, things are so much better: child mortality keeps falli

It's amazing how many people don't get that these three things can, and are, true at the same time. Yes, things are so much better: child mortality keeps falling, people in extreme poverty have (slowly) fallen, wars are less frequent. Yes, things are awful: climate catastrophe is incoming, income inequality is pushing gilded age levels, democracy has been backsliding for the past 20 years, there are more slaves today that at any point in history. Yes, things can be better: we have not reached the end-stage in political and economic development, and we will move to something better than neoliberal capitalism, we can tackle climate change with massive concerted action.