Comments on: Two Guys Named Bill On Poverty and Childhood Death and Disease https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/01/26/two-guys-named-bill-on-poverty-and-childhood-death-and-disease/ Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Young CC Prof https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/01/26/two-guys-named-bill-on-poverty-and-childhood-death-and-disease/#comment-478145 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:47:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=18657#comment-478145 My son was born just after the beginning of the year. To mark the occasion, I researched some ways in which the world of today is better than the world I was born into, in 1980.

Infant mortality has fallen by 50% worldwide and in the USA. It’s fallen by three-quarters in India and China. Global under-5 mortality has also dropped by half.

All of this not in a century but in a single generation. We may have screwed up in any number of ways, but surely we’ve done something right.

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