countries did indeed find that a clear majority of people there think the world is getting worse rosling identified a key driver of global pessimism the media he said they were not to be trusted and failed to provide the big picture the oxford martin school website also says that popular misperceptions reveal a failure of our media and our education systems news outlets tend to focus on horrible or particularly dramatic events. drawn i think just from a psychological perspective we want to know what's happening right now. and like even i suffer from this even though i try to take a long term perspective i want to know what's happening right now in the world so i'm going to draw on to these single events so i can solve. for. the much. documenting positive developments is not meant to encourage complacency progress requires hard work and the oxford martin school is busy developing solutions to humankind's great and terrifying problems. when it's about teaching common sense tends to fly out the window too much food or too little healthy or unhealthy psychologists say our aging. kind of surp

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