@sapienprogress

[@sapienprogress @sapienprogress]

The rentless application of #science, #technology and abundant #energy, took #sapiens from hunting and gathering, to a thriving global #civilisation. #sapienprogress

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

The subsistence villagers of #PapuaNewGuinea 🇵🇬 have swapped traditional clay pottery for Chinese aluminium, and that's a good thing. #HumamProgress, The #Economics of Pottery and Poverty. 🔥🥣 https://t.co/k32wuFaM8m

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Since 1301 CE, civilization has driven the cost of artificial light down from £40,512 to just £2.89 in 2006 - and in doing so we have transformed the productivity of our species at night. #HumanProgress 🔥🕯️🏭 Link: https://t.co/Gt48vtI8RQ #IndustrialRevolution

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Just got my pre-order in for "#HowInnovationWorks" by Matt Ridley @mattwridley. I've found his work on innovation, optimism and #HumanProgress to be enormously engaging and I highly recommend his latest #book and #audiobook. 📑🔖 https://t.co/MMHwgBLPQY

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

A new YouTube channel is coming May 31st 2020. "#HumanProgress Explained." Subscribe early to show your support. Like / Share / Subscribe ▶️ Link: https://t.co/lszf1UI7Ct 🙇‍♂️🙏

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

"We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb." - At Home: A Short History of Private Life: B.Bryson #HumanProgress #energy Link: https://t.co/mGvJKNi1Qn

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

2020, The Best Year to Survive the Plague. "If you had to pick a year to live through a global pandemic; you wouldn’t pick 2009, you wouldn’t pick 1985, you wouldn’t pick 1562 – you would pick 2020, every time." 💀 https://t.co/vQN61l4Gii #HumanProgress #coronavirus #COVIDー19

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

If a #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧 citizen on the median 2019 annual income of £30,300; spent as much on light and soap as an *English farm labourer in 1790 - it would amount to £1,212 a year. #HumanProgress 🔥🕯️🧼 Source: @mattwridley The Rational #Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves 2010.

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

United Kingdom 🇬🇧, circa 1800, average life expectancy 38.6 years, GDP per capita, $3,280 annually. #UnitedKingdom circa 2019, average life expectancy >81.1 years, GDP per capita >$40,000. Link: https://t.co/vq3As4uWdw #economy #economics #HumanProgress 🏭

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Since 1800, child mortality has been reduced from >43% to 3.9% - where >1,000 per 100,000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth, today the global figure is just 216; in the best countries it's 4 - 10. #HumanProgress 🍼🤰 #HumanFlourishing Link: https://t.co/XZyip3LStQ

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

"Our floating definition of poverty is an important but recent development, it’s a sign that the condition of humanity is improving at a faster rate in the last 200 years than at any point in the last 200,000 years." #HumanProgress 🏭 https://t.co/sQh8lTfnz4

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

At the dawn of the #IndustrialRevolution in 1760, the cost of reading light in the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧 was £14,930 per million lumen hours. By 1900 the cost had plummeted to just £236, and by 2006 it was £2.89. #HumanProgress #HumanFlourishing https://t.co/1Sjz3PxR9G

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Norway 🇳🇴, circa 1800, average life expectancy 38 years, GDP per capita, $2,530 annually. #Norway circa 2019, average life expectancy >82.6 years, GDP per capita >$66,300. Link: https://t.co/vq3As4uWdw #economy #economics #HumanProgress

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

2020, The Best Year to Survive the Plague. "If you had to pick a year to live through a global pandemic; you wouldn’t pick 2009, you wouldn’t pick 1985, you wouldn’t pick 1562 – you would pick 2020, every time." 💀 https://t.co/vQN61l4Gii #HumanProgress #coronavirus #COVIDー19

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Vermeer's “The Girl with a Blue Mask” “the people did pour forth from their homes into the houses of drink and entertainment, spreading the sickness and forcing such protracted economic immiseration as was not seen in a great time.” 🧼👏 Link: https://t.co/WxqrwOQMGP @mauritshuis

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

"We live at a time of the greatest development progress among the global poor in the history of the world. Never before have so many people, in so many developing countries, made so much #progress in so short a time" The Great Surge – Steven Radelet, #HumanProgress 📈

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Continuing to unlock access to abundant & inexpensive #energy - drives down poverty while dramatically increasing #economic mobility and standards of living for the world's poor. Almost without exception, access to more energy equates to a better life. #HumanProgress ⚡🏭💨☀️🛢️

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

We can understand why the #COVID2019 outbreak started in #China - by looking at why historical plagues and viral outbreaks started in Europe, and not the New World.
🐐🐂🐄🐖🐪 #HumanProgress #coronavirus https://t.co/Iva9zs3UbJ

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Peru 🇵🇪, circa 1800, average life expectancy 35.7 years, GDP per capita, $1,200 annually. #Peru circa 2018, average life expectancy >80 years, GDP per capita >$12,700. Link: https://t.co/vq3As4uWdw #economy #economics #HumanProgress 🦙🗻

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Space #technology has enormous #economic impacts on civilization. A 2019 @RTI_Intl study estimated #GPS #tech alone added $1.4 trillion USD in value to civilization since inception in 1980. System outrage would cost >$1 billion a day. #HumanProgress https://t.co/x4dzWZjPIw 🇺🇲🛰️📡

[Tony Morley @tonymmorley]

Guyana 🇬🇾, circa 1800, average life expectancy 31.1 years, GDP per capita, $1,290 annually. #Guyana circa 2018, average life expectancy >68 years, GDP per capita >$7,740. Link: https://t.co/vq3As4uWdw #economy #economics #HumanProgress