Sublime

The key, in my view, lies in educating women – which causes them to want fewer children. The sooner we are able to do this, the sooner we will have a less populated world.

Apesar de enfrentarmos enormes desafios, fizemos tremendo progresso. Essa é a visão de mundo baseada em fatos.

Nous pouvons, avec les chiffres, mesurer la souffrance résultant des maladies, ou les améliorations dans les conditions de vie matérielles. Mais le but ultime de la croissance économique, c’est la liberté individuelle et la culture, et ces valeurs sont difficiles à saisir avec des chiffres. Ils

It is easy to be aware of all the bad things happening in the world. It’s harder to know about the good things: billions of improvements that are never reported.

Generally speaking, when a country’s annual GDP per person rises above $10,000, practically no one goes hungry.

Between 1820 and 2015, the world population rose from 1.09 billion to 7.38 billion, an increase of 6.8 times.15 Over the same period, the world economy grew from $1.2 trillion to $108 trillion, or 90 times (the figures are in 2011 U.S. dollars).16 The population, then, grew at a compounded rate of slightly less than 1 percent per year, while GDP

La même logique vaut pour de nombreux produits de consommation, et j’ai donné des centaines de conférences à des chefs d’entreprise en défendant cette même idée. La majorité de la population mondiale est constamment en train d’augmenter son niveau de vie. Le nombre de gens au niveau 3 va passer de 2 à 4 milliards de personnes d’ici à 2040. Presque

to borrow a term that American Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman (1912–2006) first used: the “fixed pie fallacy.”34 Since the size of the resource pie is supposedly fixed, the fewer people there are, the larger portion of the pie they will enjoy.