It's tempting to believe that the world is on a slippery slope, going down hill fast. It seems like everywhere you look there's bad things happening, new threats to worry about and things which are worse than they used to be.
But that's lazy thinking. For every ISIS today there was an IRA yesterday, for every Ebola today there was a TB or diphtheria, for every obesity crisis there was a terrible childhood mortality rate.
Many things are coming on leaps and bounds, people are doing incredible things and for many people life today is more sheltered and peaceful than at any time in human history. This blog seeks to redress the balance in the media on whether the world is a better place or a worse place than once it was.
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