Something we didn't expect: good news

[Belair]

Over the past three or four years, I've become increasingly cynical of the media and its projection of global affairs. Ask just about anyone on how they think the world is doing. You're bound to get a negative response.

Here's an article I found that hit the spot for me, affirming my own perception on how we're actually doing.

Something we didn't expect: good news

[Khirmint]

Very interesting article though.

I wouldn't mind seeing it challenged though to see just how sturdy it is. Not that I disbelieve it or want to disbelieve it. Media, government and everyone else is making me a bit cynical.

[elei]

I would agree that despite all our fears, the world is generally a safer place for the majority of the earth's population.

However I don't like two particular things they've done:

The number of genocides, notwithstanding Rwanda and Srebrenica, peaked in 1988 and has since fallen by 80 per cent.

and

So there are fewer wars, and the wars that remain kill smaller numbers of people. The war in Iraq, the report notes, is an aberration.

This to me is just really, really bad statistical analysis. If everyone could just take out the parts of a study, then it just invalidates the whole study. No matter how favourable it might appear without those included, if they don't include it, they're distorting the results.

And frankly we could have done a lot better on lots of the points.

improvements in the world's vaccination effort has cut the number of AIDS deaths, with an estimated half a million lives saved;

Only half a million? And last time I checked there isn't a working viable vaccine for HIV.

And he even says it himself:

"but with 50 wars still under way around the world, we have a long way to go."

[Ruick]

The biased and the onesidedness of this article is amusing to say the least =). "The death tolls since one of the biggest wars in history have gone down" what I say to this is DUH! Our crime rates have risen exceedingly I believe and deaths have risen as well. Since the war... lol