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Posted on 12/25/2019 5:55:48 AM PST by Helotes
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
Good timing for a good news article. Thanks for posting.
The world must be vigilant though. Socialism lurks, ready to roll back these gains.
And we owe much of it to the internal combustion engine and the innovation of the electrical grid.
People such as Greta “how dare you” Thunberg, would disagree, as fossil fuels were involved in these benefits to humanity. To her and her ilk, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
Well, I guess the lunatic fringe will always be with us.
For me it goes back to Tesla, Newton and Jesus
The fundamental problem of natural resources is not intrinsic scarcity. It is a problem of usability, accessibility, and economics. The limit to the supply of natural resources is the state of scientific and technological knowledge, and the quantity and quality of capital equipment available.
Best period ever in the United States was 1840 to 1913, which is after the advent of indoor plumbing and before income taxes.
>>”Since its inception, the environmental movement has been obsessed by finite resources.”
Not with the way they are burning through cobalt for rechargeable (long life disposable) batteries.
And they’ve proclaimed “peak oil” numerous times.
And they’ve called them “fossil fuels” yet methane and other things are found on planets where no dinosaurs ever stomped.
Both of which we owe directly to free capitalist economics.
Given the amount of abortions worldwide humanity is failing miserably. Humanity cannot feel good about itself when unborn human beings are being murdered and their bodies are sold on the black market and also dried eaten and digested by other human beings as an aphrodisiac.
This is the real world. Nobody should feel good about humanity as long as this goes on.
Those years saw a civil war, two international wars and three depressions, but otherwise, they were great.
WWI and ????
Fueled by petroleum.
The thing is you probably could have written an article like this at many points during the 20th century.
The Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the depressions of 1857, 1873 and 1893 occurred between the invention of indoor plumbing and the income tax.
Nope...fueled by coal (and English/Anglo-Saxon political thought). Petroleum came later.
Fueled by fossil fuels.
Everything is amazing and nobody is happy. Well, liberals aren’t happy.
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