O Mundo Esta Melhor, Nao Pior!

Essa eh uma excelente reportagem da revista britanica THE SPECTATOR. Estamos vivendo um dos melhores momentos da humanidade ate o momento. Para os pessimistas de plantao, leiam a reportagem inteira (de graca, basta registrar-se no site da revista), vejam os numeros, e sejam mais otimistas. E desculpem-me os que nao falam a lingua do bardo, fiquei com preguica de traduzir...

The world is richer and healthier
(Allister Heath)

For billions of people around the world, these are the best of times to be alive. From Beijing to Bratislava, more of us are living longer, healthier and more comfortable lives than at any time in history; fewer of us are suffering from poverty, hunger or illiteracy. Pestilence, famine, death and even war, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, are in retreat, thanks to the liberating forces of capitalism and technology.

(LIBERATING FORCES OF CAPITALISM AND TECHNOLOGY! Preciso dizer mais alguma coisa aos amantes de Cuba e Coreia do Norte?)

If you believe that such apparently outlandish claims cannot possibly be true, think again. In a book which will trigger intense controversy when it is published later this month, the acclaimed American economist Indur Goklany, former US delegate to the United Nations’ intergovernmental panel on climate change, demonstrates that on every objective measure of the human condition — be it life expectancy, food availability, access to clean water, infant mortality, literacy rates or child labour — well-being and quality of life are improving around the world.

A remarkable compendium of information at odds with the present fashionable pessimism, Goklany’s The Improving State of the World, published by the Cato Institute, reveals that, contrary to popular belief, it is the poorest who are enjoying the most dramatic rise in living standards. Refuting a central premise of the modern green movement, it also demonstrates that as countries become richer, they also become cleaner, healthier and more environmentally conscious.


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