In Europe, until the late seventeenth century, the ordinary home might have had a table, some benches, a chair, a cupboard, fireplace tools, and cooking implements—and that was about it.

Scientists and engineers are finding new ways to turn pollution and waste into valuable resources. humanprogress.org/from-waste…

Universal access to electricity is coming within reach. Between 2000 and 2023, the proportion of the world’s population with access to electricity grew from 78% to 92%.

"The number of tourists visiting African countries grew by almost 8% last year—the fastest growth in the world... It’s being driven in large part, experts say, by a growing African middle class." humanprogress.org/a-growing-…

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"Amazon is constantly innovating to reduce the amount of water we use in our data centers, resulting in a 52% improvement in water efficiency since 2021." humanprogress.org/amazons-da…

Americans have enjoyed extraordinary gains in material abundance, yet housing stands out as a stubborn exception. The problem is not an inevitable market failure but the predictable result of artificial constraints on supply. humanprogress.org/the-end-of…

...I'm kinda surprised you'd even consider people you didn't know was TEAM isnotreal (capitalisation unclear) 'dear friend's'. It's hard to imagine a nazi valuing the life of an anti-nazi...but I've never supported an active #genocide before, so what do I know? #HumanProgress

How is that!? CO2 is greening the planet.

“Some of our soon-to-be-overlords didn’t even encourage us to off ourselves!” 🙄

This is not "progress."

Você já leu essa matéria? Por que eu já... (me mandaram ela umas 5x)... Tem um monte de acusações, NÃO TEM NENHUMA PROVA DOCUMENTAL OU CASO CONCRETO SENDO MENCIONADO! Fora isso, a fonte é a humanprogress, que é um projeto da Cato Institute, um think tank pró-libertarismo, conservadorismo e capitalismo que é conhecido por fazer campanhas difamatórias contra a esquerda! Eles são financiados pela John Templeton Foundation e Searle Freedom Trust. Se esforça mais aí!

I encourage you to explore the data at the website for @humanprogress (if you want cause for a "glimmer of hope"). In my experience, progressives seem to hate seeing credible evidence of progress.

The evidence contradicts these claims (suggesting at least some grounds for skepticism)—and predictions about the date for such disasters keep getting postponed or modulated (because the doomsayers have continued to underestimate our ingenuity in the face of crises).