Friday, 22 March 2019

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- And Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Ronnlund




"Poor developing countries" no longer exist as a distinct group…. Today, most people, 75 percent, live in middle income countries.




Only 9 percent of the world lives in low-income countries.




In 2016 a total of 40 million commercial passenger flights landed safely at their destinations.  Only ten ended in fatal accidents.




In the United States, the risk that your loved one will be killed by a drunk person is nearly 50 times higher than the risk he or she will be killed by a terrorist.




There was extreme poverty in Sweden 90 years ago.




In the third century BC, the world's first nature reserve was created by King Devanampiya Tissa in Sri Lanka when he declared a piece of forest to be officially protected.




When people tell me we must act now, it makes me hesitate.  In most cases, they are just trying to stop me from thinking clearly.