Do you ever feel like the world is doomed? Life gets harder, people get meaner, and nothing works like it used to? Well it turns out that’s probably your cognitive bias - and has very little to do with reality. Join Theia and Ceres as we dive into Factfulness, a book on how a fact based look at the world is more hopeful than you’d think.
Let us know how well you do on the Gapminder test!
Here are some useful links:
Ceres’ slides with graphs
The gapminder test
Global Improvement Graphs
Dollar Street - See life on different income levels
You can find us at www.youtube.com/@afriendlyorbit. If you're feeling frisky you can send us a message at [email protected]. Special thanks to Paul van Laar for creating our title theme and outro.
Until next week, we’ll catch you out there, amongst the stars!