Thanks for the post, really interesting and inspiring.
Some points:
The post and the Our World in Data project reminded me of Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness. For people who found this article interesting — I would recommend it.
I really got inspired by the child mortality stats — in the sense that things got better, and that there’s still a big room for improvement in developing countries. For me, it’s the fact that we know how to achieve something good in a general sense, and we just need to implement it. It makes the whole thing feel doable.
I also like the message that we just need to educate people on the facts to get them to feel better about the future (sorry for the implied causation, equally possible that optimistic people are better at learning). In my experience, the most educated people are usually the most pessimistic ones, so it’s interesting to see the difference here.
Thanks for the post, really interesting and inspiring.
Some points:
The post and the Our World in Data project reminded me of Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness. For people who found this article interesting — I would recommend it.
I really got inspired by the child mortality stats — in the sense that things got better, and that there’s still a big room for improvement in developing countries. For me, it’s the fact that we know how to achieve something good in a general sense, and we just need to implement it. It makes the whole thing feel doable.
I also like the message that we just need to educate people on the facts to get them to feel better about the future (sorry for the implied causation, equally possible that optimistic people are better at learning). In my experience, the most educated people are usually the most pessimistic ones, so it’s interesting to see the difference here.
One technical comment: the link on “between 10-13%” didn’t work; it probably needs to point to https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality instead.