Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling, 2018)

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  • Bad things decreasing
    1. Legal slavery
    2. Oil spills
    3. Expensive solar panels
    4. HIV infections
    5. Children dying
    6. Battle deaths
    7. Death penalty
    8. Leaded gasoline
    9. Plane crash deaths
    10. Child labour
    11. Deaths from disaster
    12. Nuclear arms
    13. Small pox
    14. Smoke particles
    15. Ozone depletion
    16. Hunger
  • Good things increasing
    1. New movies
    2. Protected nature
    3. Women's right to vote
    4. New music
    5. Science
    6. Harvest
    7. Literacy
    8. Democracy
    9. Child cancer survival
    10. Girls in school
    11. Monitored species
    12. Electricity coverage
    13. Mobile phones
    14. Water
    15. Internet
    16. Immunisation
  • Cuba is the poorest of the healthy while the United States is the sickest of the rich.
    • In Cuba, you must reject everything the government does and support what they rejects.
  • Many refugees drown in the Mediterranean sea as European Council Directive from 2001 that tells member states how to combat illegal immigration.
  • Risk to worry about now!
    1. Global pandemic: the coronavirus
    2. Financial collapse: too many financial bubbles
    3. World war 3: trade war and territorial led conflicts 
    4. Climate change: visibility changes 
    5. Extreme poverty: civil war and social unrest
  • A single typo in your CV and you probably don’t get the job. But if you put 1 billion people on the wrong continent you can still get hired. You can even get a promotion.
  • Factfulness rules of thumb
    1. Gap: look for majority
    2. Negativity: expect bad news
    3. Straight line: it might be bend
    4. Fear: calculate the risk
    5. Size: get things in proportion
    6. Generalisation: question your categories
    7. Destiny: slow change is still change
    8. Single: get a tool box
    9. Blame: resist pointing finger
    10. Urgency: take small steps

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