Summary of Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist

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In the past 200 years, the human race has grown exponentially. In the future, there could be over 10 billion humans on the planet. However, there are still people today who think life was better in the past.



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However, statistics show that life expectancy has actually declined in the past century.