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Data suggest that additional human beings do not impoverish the rest of humanity. Between 1980 and 2025, the world population grew by 85%, while global resource abundance increased by 536%.- New York City reported 22 percent fewer rat sightings in the first seven months of 2026 than a year earlier. In a West Harlem pilot area with containerized trash, sightings fell 34 percent.
- A Big Mac can be more expensive in money but less expensive in time, depending on where you live. For the time it takes a worker in Pakistan to earn enough to buy one Big Mac, workers in Denmark can buy more than 46.
- Sub-Saharan Africa has largely leapfrogged traditional banking. A mobile money account provides many of the same functions as a conventional bank account, but it can be accessed with a basic cellphone. No brick-and-mortar bank branches and far less paperwork. By 2025,
