[DM] "On Max Roser's A history of global living conditions in 5 charts and the future"

[rfmcdonald]

Over at Demography Matters, I have a post up meditating on the significance of the largely positive global trends identified by Max Roser in his essay "A history of global living conditions in 5 charts" at the Our World in Data project.



Why can we be unduly pessimistic? Roser suggests it's a failure of perspective.