Bjørn Lomborg

And hopefully during that party, and then it ends up being a really bad party for me.

But anyway, so I'll end up possibly convincing one person that I'm not totally stupid, but no, I'm not playing the martyr and I'm not enjoying that.

Yeah.

I think fundamentally the point, apart from the fact that we should just be joyful of the fact that humans live here, I think it's incredibly important to remember how much progress we've had.

Most people just don't stop to think about those stats.

I get that in the normal bustle of day, but just in 1900, the average person on the planet lived to be 32 years.

32 years, that was our average life expectancy.

Today, it's about 74.

So we've literally got two lifetimes on this planet, each one of us.

And every year you live in the rich world, you get to live three months longer, and the poor world is about four months longer.

because of medical advances, because we get better at dealing both with cancer and especially right now with heart disease.

These are amazing achievements.

Of course, it's a very, very small part of it.

We're much better fed.

We're much better educated.

We've gone from a world where virtually everyone or 90% were illiterate to a world where more than 90% illiterate.

This is an astounding opportunity.

And 200 years ago,

95%, 94% of the world were extremely poor.

That is less than a dollar a day.