Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
World's Hardest Problems
Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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Malthus was wrong.
We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource—
Human ingenuity.
Progress is mostly about what does not happen. Progress means a 92-year-old who did not die today, a boy who was not robbed on his way to school, a 12-year girl who is not married to a 30-year old man, etc. What did not happen does not make the news. The best parts of civilization don’t get headlined.
Kevin Kelly • 💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Ben Goertzelbengoertzel.substack.com
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling • 6 highlights
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