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The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster

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In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years. Full article:

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Not only will "your baby will probably have a better time of it than you did, ... but your baby will also be a net good for everyone else." @jordanbpeterson on #SuperAbundance and the morality of having children. Full episode:

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In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years. Full article:

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The Great Barrier reef, which apparently could "no longer be saved" in 2017, now has "its greatest coral cover in decades." Maybe rethink your next apocalyptic headline, @Telegraph .

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In 1820, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.

What Millennials Should Know About the Soviet Union

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Seven out of ten Americans underestimate the number of lives that communism extinguished. Perhaps that explains part of communism’s continued appeal.

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📈 Two countries, one lesson. Between 1970 and 2017: Chile 🇨🇱: Economic freedom: +123% Income per capita: +204% Venezuela 🇻🇪: Economic freedom: -64% Income per capita: -42%

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According to the Council on Foreign Relations' Global Conflict Tracker, the Western Hemisphere is, with the exception of the drug-war in Mexico, free of conflict. No person alive can remember our Hemisphere to be as peaceful as it is today.

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Deforestation is not unique to the modern world. Humans have been cutting down trees for millennia. Reforestation, however, is modern. Once countries reach a certain level of economic development, forests begin to rebound. Explore the data:

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Global greening is good news. It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales. It means higher yields for farmers; indeed, the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the last 30 years.

Americans in 2016 Richer than Rockefeller in 1916

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Warren Buffett said because of the "negative drumbeat" of politics, "many Americans now believe their children will not live as well as they themselves do. That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history."

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In 1916, no matter how rich you were, you wouldn't be able to enjoy air conditioning, TV, smart phones, the Internet, timely transportation, contact lenses, international food, antibiotics, effective dental care, a high likelihood of surviving infancy...

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The United Kingdom has more than tripled its forest area since 1919. The UK will soon reach forest levels equal to those registered in the Domesday Book, almost a thousand years ago.

Bad Economic Policies Kill More Children than War

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While Venezuela’s socialism has managed to kill more infants than war in Syria, Chile’s incredible success story shows us that by implementing the right policies, humanity can make rapid progress and better protect the most vulnerable members of society.

Compassion, Self-Interest and Envy Shape Redistribution

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Today, 14% of the world's population are illiterate. In 1820, only 12% were literate.

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"Starvation worldwide is at an all-time low, and falling. Literacy and life expectancy are at all-time highs, and rising." - @DeirdreMcClosk . To learn more:

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“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market.”

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The first steps are being made for a 'vaccine' to tackle alzheimer's. A clinical trial show that 96% of patients responded, without serious side effects, to the Alzheimer’s vaccine

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"Our children are so badly educated by people who have no idea about economics, ... about history, ... about privation or suffering... Your work is an unbelievably good antidote to that." @jordanbpeterson on our new book, #SuperAbundance Full episode:

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“Industrialization has been good for humanity. It has fed billions, doubled lifespans, slashed extreme poverty, and, by replacing muscle with machinery, made it easier to end slavery, emancipate women, and educate children.” - @sapinker

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1 in 6 people would raise taxes on the rich even if they knew it would also hurt the poor to do so. Why? Envy.

Desalinating Water Is Becoming “Absurdly Cheap”

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Around 1970, Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

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Israel’s Sorek B desalination plant processes 52.8 billion gallons a year and is contracted to produce freshwater for $0.41 per cubic meter. There are around 264 gallons per cubic meter, so this puts the cost at about a penny per 6.4 gallons.

Africa Is Growing Thanks to the Free Market

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Since the new millennium's start, Africa's average per capita income rose by more than 50 percent.

Globalization's Great Triumph: The Death of Extreme Poverty

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Extreme poverty fell from 36% in 1990 to less than 10% today. It is fascinating that this progress takes place just as many in the West are starting to doubt free trade and global capitalism.

The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster

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The speed of poverty alleviation in the last 25 years has been historically unprecedented: more than 1.25 billion people escaped extreme poverty in the last quarter century.

Technology, Not Alarmism, Will Help Tackle Climate Change

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In 2006, Al Gore warned that unless drastic measures were taken “within the next 10 years,” the world would “reach a point of no return.” That would place “the point of no return” in 2016.

Explaining Our Miraculous Flourishing

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We are the luckiest generation. On average, we are longer living, richer, healthier, more educated, and safer than any other people who have ever lived. Is it too much to ask that we start behaving in a manner commensurate with our good fortune?

Africa Is Growing Thanks to the Free Market

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The United Kingdom has more than tripled its forest area since 1919. The UK will soon reach forest levels equal to those registered in the Domesday Book, almost a thousand years ago.

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"In half a century we have gone from 75% of the world living in extreme poverty, to just 9 percent." — @mattwridley

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Africa may be the world's poorest continent, but since the start of the new millennium, Africa's average per capita income adjusted for inflation and purchasing power parity rose by more than 50% and Africa's growth rate has averaged almost 5% per year.

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The amount of vegetation growing on the earth has been increasing every year for at least 30 years.

Central Planning and Hunger: a Quick Reminder

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6 out of the 10 worst famines of the 20th century happened because of socialist central planning.

Ridley: Nuclear Fusion Could Provide Unlimited Energy

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If fusion makes energy “too cheap to meter,” we could make as much fresh water as we fancied, through desalination, to water the deserts. We could grow food indoors to release the countryside for nature. Africa could become as wealthy as America.

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The Malthusian ideologues pushing the population crisis were intrinsically hostile to nuclear power. They hated it for the same reason that the current green anti-human movement hates nuclear power: It threatens to solve a problem they need to have.

The New Nuclear Moment

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"In 1990, almost two billion people worldwide lived in extreme poverty. But by 2019, despite rapid global population growth, the number of people living in extreme poverty dropped to around 700 million." Read more in the @progressntwrk newsletter:

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“Most African nations took the socialist route after independence... Socialism, the antithesis of capitalism, was advocated as the only road to Africa’s prosperity… and in its wake followed economic atrophy, repression and dictatorship.”

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Yearly net deforestation is fast approaching zero and according to current trends, within the next couple of decades net afforestation will be the norm. This tremendous news is something to truly shout from the treetops.

Sri Lanka Is a Wake-Up Call for Eco-Utopians

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Despite what we hear on the news and from many authorities, the great story of our era is that we are witnessing the greatest improvement in global living standards ever to take place.

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Sri Lanka was a warning. We must never take the relative rarity of starvation in modern times for granted nor romanticize and seek to return to farming’s all-organic past.

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Yearly net deforestation is fast approaching zero and according to current trends, within the next couple of decades net afforestation will be the norm. This tremendous news is something to truly shout from the treetops.

NASA will shoot rocket at asteroid to test ‘planetary defense’ strategy

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"In half a century we have gone from 75% of the world living in extreme poverty, to just 9 percent." — @mattwridley

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"NASA will launch a spacecraft next month to hit an asteroid — on purpose — to change its path, testing for the first time a method of 'planetary defense.'"

NASA’s DART experiment aims to stop future asteroids from hitting Earth.

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42% of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist country. Before they reject American-style capitalism, millennials should consider how prosperous ordinary Americans really are.

Are We Really Poorer Than Our Parents?

Still Wrong! New Year’s Paul Ehrlich Interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes

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"In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death." Paul Ehrlich was wrong in 1968 and he's still wrong now. And shame on @CBS for leaving his narrative unchallenged. Read our counterargument here:

Israeli scientists find way to treat deadly pancreatic cancer in 14 days

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“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable.

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In 1960, South Korea's average income was $1,102. Ghana's was $1,053. By 2015, South Korea had reached $25,022, while Ghana only rose to $1,696. Yet Ghana received much more in net development aid per capita than South Korea between 1960 and 2015.

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Israeli scientists have developed a 14-day treatment for pancreatic cancer, which is notoriously difficult to treat. The treatment destroyed 90% of pancreatic cancer cells in the tumors of lab mice; one mouse's tumor disappeared entirely.

The tumor in one mouse that was injected with human cancer cells completely disappeared.

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"Capitalism" has become a scapegoat for all kinds of flawed institutions and the problems they cause. However, many anti-market activists don't understand how hypocritical their criticisms can be.

Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong

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The United Kingdom has more than tripled its forest coverage since 1919. The UK will soon reach forest levels equal to those registered in the Domesday Book, almost a thousand years ago.

The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster

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In 1820, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, it was 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.

Hollywood's Apocalypse Obsession Ignores Reality

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Despite apocalyptic predictions, an average person today is much better off than he or she would have been at any previous period in human history.

India Sets New Wheat Production Record

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Despite decades of apocalyptic claims from the environmental movement, resources continue to become more abundant. "Humans create more than they consume, and the planet is not about to run out of anything."

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In the 1960s, India was only producing 10 million tons of wheat a year. In 2023, it expects to produce 112 million tons. Every 1% increase in population corresponded to a 5.66% increase in wheat production—the opposite of what Paul Ehrlich predicted.

Will We Learn from the Deindustrialization of Germany?

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92% of Americans think the share of the world population in poverty has increased or stayed the same over the last two decades. Of those who realize poverty has declined, most underestimate the extent. In fact, global poverty halved over the past 20 years.

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China abandoned central planning of the economy in 1978. Between 1978 and 2017, Chinese per capita income rose by 4,557 percent. Concomitantly, absolute poverty in China dropped from 67 percent in 1990 to 1.9 percent in 2013.

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Why are some people poor? That's always the wrong question. The question is why are some people rich? Poverty is the natural condition of mankind, but it's easy to forget that.

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Chile is the most economically free country in Latin America. Venezuela is the least free economy in the world.

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China abandoned central planning of the economy in 1978. Between 1978 and 2017, Chinese per capita income rose by 4,557 percent. Concomitantly, absolute poverty in China dropped from 67 percent in 1990 to 1.9 percent in 2013.

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A study found that if Germany had postponed its nuclear phase-out and phased out coal instead, it could have saved 1,100 lives a year and avoided $12 billion in social costs.

Globalization's Great Triumph: The Death of Extreme Poverty

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Extreme poverty fell from 36% in 1990 to less than 10% today. It is fascinating that this progress takes place just as many in the West are starting to doubt free trade and global capitalism.

Anti-Capitalism: Trendy but Wrong

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Anti-capitalism is popular because people enjoy the feeling of uniting against a common enemy. Many activists fail to realize that true capitalism is the best way of fighting the systemic and material problems they so passionately decry.

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In 2016 a paper was published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in 8 countries that analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14% increase in green vegetation over 30 years.

The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster

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In 1820, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.

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Yearly net deforestation is fast approaching zero and according to current trends, within the next couple of decades net afforestation will be the norm. This tremendous news is something to truly shout from the treetops.

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If you believe that human existence is at risk from fossil fuels, you would have to be insane to continue to shun or sabotage the demonstrably practical nuclear alternative.

The New Nuclear Moment

Light Has Burst Forth in Astonishing Abundance

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Contrary to popular belief, America's middle class is disappearing primarily because people are moving into higher income groups, not because they are falling into poverty.

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The Nobel prize-winning economist William Nordhaus reported that one hour of light in 1830 required three hours of labor. Today with advanced LED technology, one hour of light costs less than 0.16 seconds.

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It is the poorest who benefit the most from secure property rights, loosened regulatory barriers, and greater trade liberalization. The poorest 10% of income earners in the freest nations make 7.9 times more than the poorest 10% in the least free nations.

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Between 1969 and 2019, the infant mortality rate fell 77%. Between 1961 and 2018, the daily food supply rose 34%. Over the last century, the chance of dying in a natural catastrophe fell 99%. With so many good things happening, why are we so gloomy?

Why Are We So Gloomy?

What 19 in 20 Americans Don't Know About World Poverty

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How is it possible that so many people are unaware of the extraordinary and unprecedented decline in world poverty that has been achieved in the last twenty years?

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The new African free trade area will eliminate 97% of tariffs within 13 years. The World Bank predicts this massive trade liberalization will increase Africa's GDP by $450 billion and lift more than 30 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035.

Africa Tries Free Trade

The Many Reasons to Be Thankful

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Americans remain among the most generous people on Earth. In 2017, Americans contributed more than $410 billion to charity. On top of that, more than 77 million Americans spent almost 7 billion hours volunteering.

Dangers of Coercive Population Control

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Seeking to “curb population growth” rather than leaving each family to make their own decisions often results in coercion. Also, the very idea of “overpopulation” is fundamentally misguided.

The Collapse of Climate-Related Deaths

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Adjusted for population, climate-related deaths have fallen by 99.25% since 1920.

Good News! The World Is Getting Freer, Faster

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Almost without exception, the freer the country, the more rapid its economic growth, and the higher its citizens’ income.

Language Change, Not Climate Change: Finding the Words to Describe a Prosperous Future

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A research team has discovered a new method of taking carbon dioxide in its gas form and converting it into solid coal. The discovery has the potential to completely change the way people regard the carbon dioxide.

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"Climate change" is now a "climate crisis." Activists want to frighten us, and it's working. 56% of young people think humanity is doomed. The good news is that's not true. Our problems are solvable, and our world is better than ever. From @ziontree :

Hans Rosling Predicts End of Poverty by 2030

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The world is burning less, not more. In 2022, "the world hit a new record-low of 2.2% burned area. Yet you’ll struggle to find that reported anywhere. Instead, the media acts as if the world is ablaze." Read more:

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Chile and Venezuela stand at two extremes in terms of development in Latin America. One is a success story, the other suffers from one of the most acute humanitarian crises ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. Why is that so?

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Extreme poverty has declined from afflicting 85% of the world's population in 1800 to less than 10% today. If that trend continues, extreme poverty will be gone by 2030.

Globalization's Great Triumph: The Death of Extreme Poverty

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When communism fell, so did mass killings.

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"The rich got richer, but the poor have done even better..."—Matt Ridley. Explore data on poverty's decline:

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In reality, hate crimes in America haven’t increased since the 2016 election.

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“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome." - Bill Gates

Free Markets Increase Trust Among People

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Capitalism is one the most cooperative of human endeavors. Repeated transactions among trading parties encourage trustworthiness-- a moral side product of capitalism that we do not spend enough time talking about, let alone celebrating.

No Discernible Rise in Well-Being? Look at the Data...

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Contrary to popular belief, America's middle class is shrinking primarily because people are moving into higher income groups, not because they are falling into poverty.

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“Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace.” - @mattwridley

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The U.S. emits less CO2 today partly due to technological breakthroughs, like hydraulic fracturing.

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Amid all the talk of an imminent planetary catastrophe, another fact is often ignored: global greening is happening faster than global warming.

The Collapse of Climate-Related Deaths

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Climate adaptation works. Adjusted for population, climate-related deaths have fallen by 99.25% since 1920.