It's better than it looks reasons for optimism in an age of fear
Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more. Yet this narrative misses something important...
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Why don't we starve?
- Why, despite all our bad habits, do we keep living longer?
- Will nature collapse?
- Will the economy collapse?
- Why is violence in decline?
- Why does technology become safer instead of more dangerous?
- Why don't the dictators win?
- How declinism became chic
- The "impossible" challenge of climate change
- The "impossible" challenge of inequality
- We'll never run out of challenges
- And it will never be too late.
