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Biologist and writer. Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, and How Innovation Works. Pre-order Viral: http://amzn.to/3hfGmyn 

Northumberland, UK
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    Matt Ridley‏Verified account @mattwridley 18 Jan 2020

    The percentage of the world population that lives in extreme poverty has halved in the last decade. It's now below 10%. It was something like 60% when I was born: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/iea-podcast-best-decade/ …

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      2. Οὖτις  🟧 🇺🇸 🐛 I AM A REBEL‏ @Call_Me_Outis 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley @CHSommers

        Doesn't matter. The goalpost will simply be changed by changing the definition of poverty. Just wait.

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      3. vass‏ @evasyl 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @Call_Me_Outis @mattwridley @CHSommers

        "She was poor. Her family was so poor, that they had no butler. Their maids were poor too. And her gardener was broke."

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      1. Chris_In_Parts‏ @KneesMa 21 Jan 2020
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        This smells of inaccuracy

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      2. GeorgeBorges‏ @GeorgeBorges 21 Jan 2020

        Pay for it

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      2. Keith Billik‏ @banjopodcast 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley

        Ooh, so you're saying a bunch of people pulled themselves up by the bootstraps from extreme poverty to... regular poverty? Or maybe they just died.

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      3. Andrew‏ @awshields0 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @banjopodcast @mattwridley

        Yeah man, 60% of the planet died and no one noticed. Meanwhile we somehow went from 2B to 7+B in that time frame. Good argument. Got 'im.

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      1. Greg Robie‏ @OpenToInfo 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @mattwridley @CHSommers

        DUPLICITIOUS!/? But the statistic is impressive/depressing goal post moving … & necessary propaganda when #NoLivesMatter w/in #CapitalismFAIL w/ its #AbruptClimateChange.

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