Training yourself how to put the news into perspective – practising ‘factfulness’ – will change your outlook for the betterThings are bad,and it feels like they are getting worse, right? War, or violence,natural disasters, corruption. The rich are getting richer and the destitute are getting poorer; and we will soon speed out of resources unless something drastic is done. That’s the picture most people in the west see in the media and carry around in their heads.
I call it the overdramatic worldview. It’s stressful and misleading. In fact, or the enormous majority of the world’s population live somewhere in the middle of the income scale. Perhaps they are not what we judge of as middle class,but they are not living in extreme poverty. Their girls travel to school, their children get vaccinated. Perhaps not on every single degree, or every single year,but step by step, year by year, or the world is improving. In the past two centuries,life expectancy has more than doubled. Although the world faces enormous challenges, we have made tremendous progress.
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Source: guardian.co.uk