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More realist than optimist, he wrote, “When we have a fact-based worldview we can see that the world is not as bad as it seems-and we can see what we have to do to keep making it better. He was, for instance, greatly concerned about climate change. Widely recognized for his eye-opening TED talks, Rosling never denied that major problems remain to be solved. BOOK REVIEW: Factfulness - A way to help us cope with the Coronavirus This article is from the Quaredition of Consider this. You will make better decisions, stay alert to real dangers. You will be able to get the world right without learning it by heart. Start to practice it, and you will be able to replace your overdramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts.

Today, 90% of primary-school-age girls around the world are enrolled in school. Factfulness, like a healthy diet and regular exercise, can and should become part of your daily life.

Just since the 1970s, the undernourished share of the population has dropped by two thirds, while children surviving cancer diagnoses have increased more than a third, to 80%.

Over the same period, global literacy grew from one in ten to nine in ten.

Worldwide since 1800, the percent of children who die before age 5 has steadily declined from 44% to 4%.

Positive trends evolve slowly and are little noted: If no airplanes crashed yesterday, that fact won’t make today’s headlines. Rosling says we fail to see these positive trends because of ten human instincts that blind us to the facts.