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I Think Al Gore Has Done A Great Service In Making Global Warming Cool. He's Basically Taken It From A Nerdy, Almost Ignored Issue To Making It What It Is - Namely, A Problem.

When Thinking About The Future, It Is Fashionable To Be Pessimistic. Yet The Evidence Unequivocally Belies Such Pessimism. Over The Past Centuries, Humanity's Lot Has Improved Dramatically - In The Developed World, Where It Is Rather Obvious, But Also In The Developing World, Where Life Expectancy Has More Than Doubled In The Past 100 Years.

Of Course, The World Is Full Of Problems. But On The Other Hand It's Important To Get The Sense... Are We Generally Moving In The Right Direction Or The Wrong Direction?

The Obvious Issue Is Providing Clean Drinking Water And Sanitation To Every Single Human Being On Earth At The Cost Of Little More Than One Year Of The Kyoto Treaty.

We Worry About The Seemingly Ever-increasing Number Of Natural Catastrophes. Yet This Is Mainly A Consequence Of Cnn - We See Many More, But The Number Is Roughly Constant, And We Manage To Deal Much Better With Them Over Time. Globally, The Death Rate From Catastrophes Has Dropped About Fifty-fold Over The Past Century.