The world is richer and healthier

The cover story of this week’s Spectator is based on fascinating-sounding research by Indur Goklany, an American economist and former delegate to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In a book to be published by the Cato Institute he evidently argues that on every objective measure the human condition is improving. Naturally this does not mean that everything is perfect but things are, on average, much better than at any time in human history.