IEA Book Club Webinar with Ronald Bailey and Marian Tupy – ‘Ten Global Trends That Every Smart Person Needs to Know’

Time:

  • 13/10/2020
    18:00 - 19:00
The IEA Book Club is delighted to host Ronald Bailey and Marian Tupy, to discuss their latest book “Ten Global Trends That Every Smart Person Needs to Know: And Many Other Trends You Will Find Interesting”.

Think the world is getting worse? You’re wrong: the world is, for the most part, not getting worse. But 58 percent of folks in 17 countries that were surveyed in 2016 thought the world is either getting worse or staying the same rather than getting better. The uncontroversial data on major global trends in this book will persuade you that this dark view of the prospects for humanity and the natural world is, in large part, badly mistaken.

World population will peak at 8 to 9 billion before the end of this century as the global fertility rate continues its fall from 6 children per woman in 1960 to the current rate of 2.4. The global absolute poverty rate has fallen from 42 percent in 1981 to 8.6 percent today. Satellite data show that forest area has been expanding since 1982. Natural resources are becoming ever cheaper and more abundant.

Of course, major concerns such as climate change, marine plastic pollution, and declining wildlife populations are still with us, but many of these problems are already in the process of being ameliorated as a result of the favorable economic, social, and technological trends that are documented in this book.

You can’t fix what is wrong in the world if you don’t know what’s actually happening. Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know will provide busy people with quick-to-read, easily understandable, and entertaining access to surprising facts that they need to know about how the world is really faring.

This event is strictly for IEA Book Club members. For more information of this event and the Book Club please contact us at bookclub@iea.org.uk

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