Johan Norberg has been running a great series on Twitter (a Twitterseries?) to help promote his new book Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future.
It’s stunning stuff. For instance, did you know …
Wow! Can we get a Hallelujah?
Promoted with the handle #progressadventcalendar, this is the some of the most blessed news of progress he’s been posting (with the back-up data in his book):
This is not trivial.
Surprising, huh.
Solely due to rising prosperity making it possible. But there’s more:
And even …
2016 might seem like a good year to see the back of.
But there’s still lots of good cheer to talk about around the Christmas tree.
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"Wow! Can we get a Hallelujah?" Yes indeed, Hellelujah!
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Seems a similar message to Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of our Nature"
Peter