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About the product The book, after reading which, you will understand how our world actually works, what changes are taking place in it and where these changes will lead us. And no, the situation is not getting worse every year. In fact, things are only getting better. The perfect book to stop fearing the future. The world is divided in half. In rich countries, people live happily, the elderly are well off, children almost never die, there is enough food for everyone, and the situation is only getting better. In poor countries, there is a critically high percentage of child mortality, the standard of living of the elderly is unusually low, there is not enough food, and every year it gets worse and worse. This is just one of the misconceptions that have nothing to do with statistics. In fact, there are many such misconceptions. Incredibly many. Hans Rosling, a scientist, global health specialist, physician, popular lecturer and one of the founders of the Swedish branch of Médecins Sans Frontières, shows how far from the truth our ideas about the world are. Is the gap between the rich and the poor growing in the world, is an ever increasing number of rare animal species really dying out, is the level of education falling all over the world, is the number of forests and reserves on Earth decreasing? Real answers to these questions can turn the usual pessimistic picture of the world. Abstract When we think about the current state of affairs in the world, it seems to us that every year the situation is getting worse and worse. Natural disasters claim more and more lives, populations of rare animals belonging to endangered species are literally melting before our eyes, the proportion of the world’s population living in poverty is steadily growing. In fact, everything is exactly the opposite. In his book «Factuality. Ten Reasons for Our Misconceptions About the World — And Why Things Aren’t As Bad As It Seems» Scientist, Doctor, Lecturer and Co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières Sweden, Hans Rosling not only talks about the most common mistakes, which our brain makes, trying to assess the global changes taking place in the world, but also provides tools thanks to which you can learn to correctly see and understand the general picture of what is happening, even if you do not have time to analyze small details.
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