Peter H. Diamandis. Peter Diamandis: Abundance -- The Future Is Better Than You Think. I was in a coffee shop recently and overheard a young couple discussing whether or not it was morally responsible to bring a child into today's world given all of the global challenges we face. What's curious about their question and the dark contemporary mood it represents is that in a very measurable way, the world is better off than its ever been. I'll start with poverty, which has declined more the in the past 50 years than the previous 500.
Over the last 50 years, in fact, even while the population on Earth has doubled, the average per capita income globally (adjusted for inflation) has tripled. We're not just richer than ever before, we're healthier as well. During the past century, maternal mortality has decreased by 90 percent, child mortality has decreased by 99 percent, while the length of the average human lifespan has more than doubled. As Steven Pinker has lately made clear, since the middle ages, violence on Earth has been in constant decline. For starters, the amygdala. Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future. Abundance the Book - by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler — Abundance - the Future is Better Than You Think - is a new book by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Official Abundance the Book website. Peter Diamandis On Why Businesses Should Be Optimistic About The Future.