Factological

When we think about the current state of affairs in the world, it seems to us that every year the situation is getting worse and worse. The spontaneous disasters take more and more lives, the populations of rare animals related to dying species are melting literally before our eyes, the share of the world population living in poverty is growing steadily. In fact, everything is exactly the opposite.

In his book “Factologism. Ten reasons for our delusions about the world - and why everything is not as bad as it seems, ”the scientist, the doctor, the lecturer and one of the founders of the Swedish department of the organization“ Doctors without borders ”Hans Rodling not only talks about the most common mistakes that our brain makes, trying To evaluate the global changes taking place in the world, but also gives tools, thanks to which you can learn to see and understand the general picture of what is happening correctly, even if you do not have time to analyze small details.