{"id":24051,"date":"2019-01-11T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24051"},"modified":"2019-01-11T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:18:16","slug":"seven-charts-that-show-the-world-is-actually-becoming-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24051","title":{"rendered":"Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So many people think that the world is becoming a worse and worse place when actually the opposite is the case. How can there be such a divergence between perception and reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s because we concentrate on the headlines  &#8211; which are overwhelmingly negative &#8211; instead of looking at the trendlines &#8211; which are generally very positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two recent books have argued this case in detail: &#8220;Enlightment Now&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#EN\">here<\/a>] and &#8220;Factfulness&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#FFN\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have time to read the books, at least read my reviews and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/seven-charts-that-show-the-world-is-actually-becoming-a-better-place-109307\">this blog posting<\/a> on seven charts that show that the world is becoming better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people think that the world is becoming a worse and worse place when actually the opposite is the case. How can there be such a divergence between perception and reality? In short, it&#8217;s because we concentrate on the headlines &#8211; which are overwhelmingly negative &#8211; instead of looking at the trendlines &#8211; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24067,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24051\/revisions\/24067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}