The 2010s | The Best Decade in Human History!

Recently I came to this article, or tweet to be more precise by a Swedish historian Johan Norberg, where he is saying that based on some key facts 2010s has been the best decade in the human history.

Shocking isn’t it!

The tweet:
https://twitter.com/johanknorberg/status/1200153324609249281?lang=en

It is really hard to think this is true, since the media always want to come up with amazingly shocking stories, and everything that is needed to keep your attention. The buzz on the social media is yet another level of the trauma that is happening in the world. The personal feeling that people have about the state of things.

This are the facts that are mentioned in the tweet to support the claim:

1. 28% of all wealth mankind has ever created (measeured as GDB per capita), was created in these ten years.
2. Extreme poverty more than halved, from 18.2% to 8.6%. The number of poor was reduced by 158,000 – every day.
3. The child mortality rate was reduced by a third. As a result, 2.1 million children’s death were prevented in 2019.
4. Life expectancy increased from 69.5 to 72.6 years. So, every day in the past decade, the average life span increased almost 8 hours.
5. The share of people governed by laws criminalizing consensual same-sex acts declined from 40% go 27%.
6. The share of countries with laws protecting women from violent partners increased from 53% to 78%.
7. The global death rate from indoor and outdoor pollution declined 19%.
8. Despite global warming, deaths from climate-related disasters declined by a third, to 0.35 per 100,000. A reduction by 95% since 1960s.
9. Many rich countries have reached “peak stuff”. The consumption of 66 out of 72 resourses tracked by the US Geological Survey is declining.
10. Despite setbacks and strongman nostalgia, the share who live in a “not free” county declined from 34% to 26% (down from 42.5% in 1980).

One more for the crypto pips. 2010s brought us Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and Steem!

Elon Musk, the techie favorite himself has supported this claims as well, stating:

”This are the best times to be alive”

Cheers to the 2010s, with hopes for even better 2020s!

All the best
@dalz