Is it Okay to be Optimistic?

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Uploaded by on May 18, 2010

Listen to the whole interview:
http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/may/18/rational-optimist/
Matt Ridley explains how and why life is improving around the world. Though the world is far from perfect, food availability, income, and life span are up, while disease, child mortality, and violence are down.

In The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Ridley covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, and asserts that the human races capacity for innovation and change means that life will get better for more and more people in the 21st century.

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