Rosling — “Does saying ‘things are improving’ imply that everything…”

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think — Hans Rosling

Book page: rosling-factfulness

From: Factfulness — Quotes

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Does saying “things are improving” imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It’s both. It’s both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time. That is how we must think about the current state of the world.