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Knowing that poverty and child mortality have actually fallen is what makes people think the future can improve.
Drawn from what Hannah Ritchie said
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What Hannah Ritchie actually said
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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World
Only 17% of those who got no correct answers on historical development changes thought the world would be better off. 62% of those with more than five correct answers did.
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Blanket fatalism about the world is unhelpful to anyone who wants to improve it.
Saying fatalism is unhelpful is only useful if it can be undone, and the evidence Ritchie offers for that is the survey: 17% of people who knew nothing about historical progress thought the world would improve, against 62% of those who did.
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