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“THE further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it.”
– George Orwell
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ACCORDING to statistics, we have never lived in more healthy, prosperous and climate-safe times.
MAX Roser’s work for Oxford University’s “Our World in Data” project shows that two centuries ago, 90% of the global population lived in extreme poverty and now, even though the population has grown from less than one billion people to about 7.5 billion, those proportions have completely reversed so that only 10% of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty :
Global Extreme Poverty – Our World in Data
Global Extreme Poverty – Our World in Data
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YOUR BABIES
TWO centuries ago, 43% of all babies died before reaching the age of five. This mortality was spread widely — more than one in…
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