Posted on 12/31/2019 8:45:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Over the last ten years, energy production has become cheaper and more efficient, Americans and Britons have started to consume fewer resources even as their standards of living increased, and greenhouse gas emissions have decreased. Contrary to the fearmongering of radicals like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Grow Yucca in NYC), life has gotten better for humans and the environment in the past decade.
Writing for Britain's Spectator magazine, Matt Ridley explained that the 2010s have seen "the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 per cent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging as Africa and Asia experience faster economic growth than Europe and North America; child mortality has fallen to record low levels; famine virtually went extinct; malaria, polio and heart disease are all in decline."
News often focuses on the tragedies — horrific mass shootings, poverty in Venezuela, war and civil strife in the Middle East — while ignoring the broad positive trends in living standards. Tragedies have been a fact of life for as long as humans walked the earth, but the increasing living standards are new and less shocking.
One of the greatest untold successes of the 2010s involved the decreasing cost of energy and the expansion of energy sources, especially among renewables.
The shale oil revolution from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which started in 2006 but peaked in the past decade, nearly helped make the United States a net energy exporter for the first time since 1953.
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Not for nothing...I simply don’t believe greenhouse gases have decreased.
No no. Greta Thunberg said her dreams were shattered, with fantasies of economic growth, and works leaders allegedly doing nothing about global warming. Nothing else matters to listen to those fear mongers. Greta disagrees with this.
0bama is greatly saddened. :(
In America, this was only since Nov. 2016. Before that, real family income was on the decline or stagnant at best.
A really good article
“positive trends in living standards”
The progs have their work cut out for them.
-———Stolen from BLAM:
I feel grateful to have been born at the best time in history, in the best country and living conditions in all of human history. I live better than most kings and royalty in all of human history...how could I have been more fortunate?...
bttt
“ Not for nothing...I simply don’t believe greenhouse gases have decreased.”
You are correct. Water vapor has remained fairly constant.
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