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- Steven Pinker has a recent book called Enlightenment Now about progress
- it includes descriptions of humanity’s growth in wealth/health/life quality
- here I discussed some of the charts in it and what they represent
- includes content on global GDP changes and child mortality rates
- message of the book is that the baseline of the world population has risen
- recommended by Bill Gates as one of top 2 books of 2018 so far
