Sublime

Malthus made a provocative and important point, but fortunately for us, his conclusions were far too pessimistic. When living standards began to rise globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and as more people moved to cities, families chose to have fewer children and to invest more in the education, nutrition, and health care of each ch

Le nombre de milliards, de gauche à droite, comme un code PIN. Amériques : 1. Europe : 1. Afrique : 1. Asie : 4. (J’ai arrondi les nombres.) Comme tous les codes PIN, ce code changera. À la fin du siècle, les experts de l’ONU estiment qu’il n’y aura pas de changement en Europe et aux Amériques, mais qu’il y aura 3 milliards de personnes de plus en

do you know how much of all the fossil fuel burned each year is burned by the richest billion? More than half of it. Then the second-richest billion burns half of what’s left, and so on and so on, down to the poorest billion, who are responsible for only 1 percent.

unusual events are more newsworthy than everyday ones. And the unusual stories we are constantly shown by the media paint pictures in our heads. If we are not extremely careful, we come to believe that the unusual is usual: that this is what the world looks like.

There are still a few regions with very high fertility rates—notably in sub-Saharan Africa—and as a result, living standards are not yet rising at the rates needed to end poverty in those places. The expectation is that with more urbanization and longer years of schooling, especially for girls, fertility rates will decline in those places as well.

Países mais ricos (no quesito PIB per capita, ou seja, já devidamente considerado o tamanho de sua população) apresentam menor mortalidade infantil, maior expectativa de vida, melhores serviços de saúde, oferta mais ampla de bens culturais (museus e bibliotecas, por exemplo), dentre vários aspectos da vida que geralmente valorizamos.