so to discuss that, i'm now joined by judith perry. it's an american plan to tell interest and a professor in america at the georgia institute of technology. it's professor curry . it's amazing to talk to you. thank you very much for being available. well, thank you for inviting me now in one of your articles here. role of that, and let me quote here. all things considered planet earth is doing fine. humans doing better than at any other time in history. and i think it sounds incredulous in our era of almost paramount doomsday anxieties. why are you so chill population, you know, over the last 100 years population has substantially increased poverty, has reduced substantially, globally on agricultural productivity. is way up. um, fewer people per cap adults are dying for the weather in climate related disasters on the planet is greeny, it seems to enjoy the warmer temperatures and the addition of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. so overall, if it seems like we've done pretty well over the past century, during a period when the planet