Believe it or not, the world is getting better. We just don't hear about it | HeraldScotland

Believe it or not, the world is getting better. We just don't hear about it | HeraldScotland - BJORN LOMBORG

• This year, scientists revealed that two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef shows the highest coral cover seen since records began in 1985

"IT’S easy to believe that life on Earth is getting ever-worse.

• The media constantly highlight one catastrophe after another and make terrifying predictions...
• We are incessantly told about disasters, whether it is the latest heatwave, flood, wildfire or storm.

Yet, the data overwhelmingly shows that over the past century, people have become much, much safer from all these weather events. 

Indeed, in the 1920s, around half a million people were killed by weather disasters, whereas in the last decade the death-toll averaged around 18,000. 

This year, just like 2020 and 2021, is tracking below that. 

Why? 

Because when people get richer, they get more resilient...