THE best of times, the worst of times. As does, in more elegant terms, science writer and British House of Lords voting member Matt Ridley in the British Spectator. “We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history,” he writes of the decade just ending. Of course bad things can happen in even the best of times, and a minor cloudburst can spoil a bright summer day. But at year’s and decade’s end, our grumbling society is closer to the best of times than to the worst of times.

Source: Manila Times January 01, 2020 18:21 UTC