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In effective-population-adjusted terms, we generally see pretty steady declines after any given area hits its initial peak.
Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?
Since 1800, the population of the world has multiplied six times, yet average life expectancy has more than doubled and real income has risen more than nine times. Taking a shorter perspective, in 2005, compared with 1955, the average human being on Planet Earth earned nearly three times as much money (corrected for inflation), ate one-third more c... See more
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
MDG and SDG campaigns but curiously absent in the cost-benefit calculation we described earlier.
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Saving the very last person from poverty or hunger is much more expensive than saving each of the first 30, 50, or 80 percent.
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
By The Numbers
Samir Chaudry • Big Time
In the following chapters we will see time and again how a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Unfortunately, the people on Level 4 paying for ReliefWeb are the same people we asked about the trend in natural disasters. Ninety-one percent of them are unaware of the success they are paying for because their journalists continue to report every disaster as if it were the worst.