Sublime

Pour la première fois dans l’histoire, pour presque chaque aspect du développement mondial, il existe des données. Et pourtant, à cause de nos instincts dramatiques, et de la façon dont les médias les exploitent pour capter notre attention, nous continuons à avoir une vision dramatique du monde. De tous nos instincts dramatiques, il semble que ce

Het aantal klimaatdoden begint dan ook fors te zakken. Van jaarlijks 450 duizend mensen in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw tot rond de 50 duizend in de jaren tien van deze eeuw. In 2021 sterven door het klimaat minder dan 10 duizend mensen.121 Verrekend met de bijna 6 miljard mensen die er in de afgelopen eeuw bijkwamen, is dat een daling van

Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe,

disability adjusted life year” (DALY). This allows

In the UK the number rose from 92,000 in 1997 to 786,000 in 2012.38

We still have a lot of work to do – five million children dying every year is a tragedy – but we have achieved the unthinkable: our ancestors could never have imagined a world where the death of a child was so rare.

For example, we saw that pneumonia was behind a large number of children’s deaths each year. Although a pneumo vaccine already existed, it was so expensive that poor countries weren’t buying it. (They had little incentive to, because they had no idea how many children were dying from the disease.) Once they saw the data, though—and once donors

total, the benefit will amount to $2.1 trillion per year.