Factfulness

Entertaining, enlightening, if somewhat repetitive book which illustrates quite conclusively that most of us live with a very outdated view of the world, reinforced by media desperate to get our attention by dramatizing and sensationalizing stories that distort the slow steady improvement in key areas. One eye-opening example: that the number of people in the world in extreme poverty is now down to 800 million. The book is full of such facts, and it isn't a rose-tinted view. The authors don't ignore the negative, they just balance it against the inescapable positives of slowly improving circumstances. Recommended.