Sublime

Pour éviter les erreurs d’évaluation, la première chose à faire est d’éviter les chiffres isolés. Ne laissez jamais parler des chiffres isolés. Jamais. N’allez jamais croire qu’un chiffre isolé peut avoir du sens. Si on vous offre un seul chiffre, demandez-en toujours au moins un autre. Quelque chose à quoi on puisse le comparer.

Kremer illustrates this by showing that as the population of the earth has increased, the rate of population growth has increased rather than declined. Had humans been a burden consuming resources, then the larger the population, the lower the quantity of resources available to each individual and the lower the rate of economic growth and thus

Just as I have urged you to look behind the statistics at the individual stories, I also urge you to look behind the individual stories at the statistics. The world cannot be understood without numbers. And it cannot be understood with numbers alone.

Lecture : l’ensemble des pays du monde est en train ou va subir une transition démographique d’ampleur avec une hausse du vieillissement, matérialisée par la hausse du ratio démographique. Si le Japon a été un précurseur, suivi de l’Europe, la Chine va voir dans les 50 ans à venir un vieillissement très rapide avec la hausse forte de l’espérance

Considerable development took place in the decades after World War II and, more recently, following the end of the Cold War. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty (defined as those living on less than $1.90 per day) is down from 40–50 percent of the world’s population fifty years ago and more than one-third of the population as

Specifically, we have set low and high values of a DALY at $1,000 and $5,000,

“Every group of people I ask thinks the world is more frightening, more violent, and more hopeless—in short, more dramatic—than it really is,” Hans Rosling wrote in his book Factfulness.

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.