Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History!
Once again, the world’s population was living longer and living better than ever before.
Opinion Columnist
The world is, as everyone knows,
going to hell, but there’s still the nervous thrill of waiting to see
precisely which dark force will take us down. Will the economy collapse
first, the ice sheets melt first, or chaos and war envelop us first?
So here’s my antidote to that gloom: Let me try to make the case that 2018 was actually the best year in human history.
Each
day on average, about another 295,000 people around the world gained
access to electricity for the first time, according to Max Roser of
Oxford University and his Our World in Data website.
Every day, another 305,000 were able to access clean drinking water for
the first time. And each day an additional 620,000 people were able to
get online for the first time.
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