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Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
TED
Steven Pinker's TED talk presents data on homicide, war, poverty and pollution to argue that the world has improved over the past decades. He frames progress as problem-solving, not inevitability.
Cited as a data-backed counter to doom and pessimism about the state of the world.
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