People can be forgiven for feeling depressed these days. The future touted by global leaders is dire.
The 2021–2022 U.N. Human Development Report states that living standards have declined in 9 out of 10 countries around the world since 2020 and that multiple crises “are hitting us at the same time and interacting to create new threats and make us feel insecure, unsafe, and untrusting of each other.”
