{"id":41084,"date":"2022-01-21T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/50-razones-para-ser-optimista-datos-objetivos-diversos-ambitos-vida-sociedad"},"modified":"2022-01-21T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:34:59","slug":"50-razones-para-ser-optimista-con-datos-objetivos-sobre-diversos-ambitos-de-la-vida-y-la-sociedad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/50-razones-para-ser-optimista-con-datos-objetivos-sobre-diversos-ambitos-de-la-vida-y-la-sociedad\/","title":{"rendered":"50 reasons to be optimistic with objective data about various areas of life and society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/33e1f0\/swirling-stars-and-space-video-zoom-virtual-background\/1024_2000.png\" alt=\"50 razones para ser optimista con datos objetivos sobre diversos \u00e1mbitos de la vida y la sociedad\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>\nDespite the doomsaying discourses, which have always been the hegemonic ones in all periods of history, it is enough to take a look at a few decades in advance to, simply, <strong>feel very proud of how we have improved the world in all areas, from social to environmental<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Every time someone comes to you with the refrain that the world is going to the abyss and that values have been lost, send it to them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Reasons for optimism<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n   Hunger can disappear from our planet by 2030 if current improvements are maintained.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   More than one billion people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The number of children out of school <strong>has been divided by two in 20 years<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The human development index (health, longevity, level of education, standard of living) <strong>has progressed in all regions of the world between 1990 and 2014<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The fertility rate has gone from 5 births per woman in 1960 to 2.5 births in 2014.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   In 1900 very few people benefited from a social security system. Today it is the norm.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   Since 2001, people are more generous every year than the year before.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The amount allocated to international public development aid has increased steadily for 50 years.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   Most states in the world are democracies. <strong>Two centuries ago they were only 5 %<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   In 2016, Burma emerged from an authoritarian regime of more than 50 years through democratic means.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the following video you can see the 40 extra reasons, in case you still have any doubts that each time, in general, <strong>we live in a little better world<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VswMyhxL5yE\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/50-razones-para-ser-optimista-datos-objetivos-diversos-ambitos-vida-sociedad?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       <em> 50 reasons to be optimistic with objective data about various areas of life and society <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/33e1f0\/swirling-stars-and-space-video-zoom-virtual-background\/1024_2000.png\" alt=\"50 razones para ser optimista con datos objetivos sobre diversos \u00e1mbitos de la vida y la sociedad\"><\/p>\n<p>\nDespite the doomsaying discourses, which have always been the hegemonic ones in all periods of history, it is enough to take a look at a few decades in advance to, simply, <strong>feel very proud of how we have improved the world in all areas, from social to environmental<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Every time someone comes to you with the refrain that the world is going to the abyss and that values have been lost, send it to them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Reasons for optimism<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n   Hunger can disappear from our planet by 2030 if current improvements are maintained.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   More than one billion people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The number of children out of school <strong>has been divided by two in 20 years<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The human development index (health, longevity, level of education, standard of living) <strong>has progressed in all regions of the world between 1990 and 2014<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The fertility rate has gone from 5 births per woman in 1960 to 2.5 births in 2014.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   In 1900 very few people benefited from a social security system. Today it is the norm.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   Since 2001, people are more generous every year than the year before.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   The amount allocated to international public development aid has increased steadily for 50 years.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   Most states in the world are democracies. <strong>Two centuries ago they were only 5 %<\/strong>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n   In 2016, Burma emerged from an authoritarian regime of more than 50 years through democratic means.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the following video you can see the 40 extra reasons, in case you still have any doubts that each time, in general, <strong>we live in a little better world<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/50-razones-para-ser-optimista-datos-objetivos-diversos-ambitos-vida-sociedad?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       <em> 50 reasons to be optimistic with objective data about various areas of life and society <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=02_Mar_2022\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41084"}],"version-history":[{"count":590,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76120,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41084\/revisions\/76120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}