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1902 IJB: Are Things Getting Better?
2014 Annual Letter from Bill Gates: Three Myths That Block Progress for the Poor (pdf)
2021-09 REX Call
2025-10-23 OGM Call: Has Progress Stopped? (xlnt)
23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born (good charts)
A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
Are Things Getting Better or Worse?
Are things really getting better? The numbers tell us so
Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
Doomsayers Beware, a Bright Future Beckons
Embracing the dance…
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018)
Factfulness – there is also lots of positive news
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More (2011)
How Pope Francis Misunderstands the World
HumanProgress.org
If It's the Best Time to Be Alive, Why Do so Many People Feel Shitty?
Is Humanity Getting Better?
Is the World Getting Better or Worse? (optimistic)
It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 greatest trends of the last 100 years
Libertarian Arguments That Everything's Improving
Max Roser
Optimistic facts and charts that show the world is getting much, much better
Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty
Poverty Is Declining Worldwide
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (2016)
Snap Out of It
Steven Pinker
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know (ugh, so flawed)
The Alternatives to Sorting Out Trust All Suck
The best stats you've ever seen (2006)
The Great Enrichment
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (2016)
The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker
The New Optimists
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010)
The world as 100 people, glimpsed over 200 years of history
The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts (harrumph)
The world is getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster slower and slower. (updated)
The World is Getting Better. Quickly.
This Has Been the Best Year Ever (2019)
This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity
Violence Has Been Decreasing
We Don’t Know What Will Happen Next (xlnt)
We Live In The Most Safest Times 🤯 w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson
We're living the dream; we just don't realize it
When Did Optimism Become Uncool?
Whig History (progress is inevitable)
Why 2017 May Be the Best Year Ever
Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History
Why The World Is Getting Better And Why Hardly Anyone Knows It
Why the World Is Still Getting Better—and That's Likely to Continue
Jumps
Articles About Development
Articles About Poverty
Global Catastrophic Risk (risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth)
Hot Crises
Is the World (Really) Getting Better?
Is the world really better than ever?
Planetary (Global) Crises
Shit Is Fucked up and Bullshit
The System Is Rigged
We’re Doomed!
Young Folks Today Will Likely Do Worse than Their Ancestors