According to the news scroll across the bottom of my cardi- machine at the gym yesterday — despite AIDs, Ebola, wars (religious and otherwise), drones, the NRA, global warming, coal and tobacco and asbestos, starvation, over-zealous police, and increasing wealth disparity — between 1990 and now the life expectancy of human beings worldwide has increased by six years.
So let’s hear it for us.
Way to go, human beings.