Some Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About

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In spite (and many times because of) all the social media and internet news, we tend to have a skewed view of the world around us. Quite often we think it is actually worse than it really is or we are focused on only a few historically insignificant events like a presidential election. There are other, arguably more important things happening in the world. These are some things happening in the world today that many people don’t know about!

Many of the world’s deserts are growing larger every year. For example, the Sahara Desert has expanded to the south by another 250 km since 1900. This accounts for nearly 6000 square km.

On average, humans appear to be getting smarter by about 3 IQ points per year but scientists aren’t completely sure why.

Over the last 20 years cancer rates have have fallen by 20% and are still dropping.

Africa is the fastest developing region of the world and it’s not nearly as bad as many western NGO’s make it out to be. It’s just hard to solicit funds for starving children without showing you pictures of starving children.

More than 150,000 Mexicans have died since 2000 due to fighting between drug cartels.

More than 1000 people have died building the stadium so far but those numbers don’t typically get published because many of the workers are “immigrants” from Asia. In fact, several foreign news teams have been arrested for reporting on this.

They’re dying. Maybe not as fast as the media makes it sound, but their population is nevertheless decreasing at an alarming rate.

Many of the comments you read on news websites, social media platforms, and forums are actually people being paid to spread subversive messages online.

It is advancing faster than anybody expected. Computers are actually able to learn and reprogram themselves. If it sounds science fictiony…it is. Google’s deep learning AI just beat the world Go champion. That was something we didn’t think would happen for at least another 100 years (Go is the most complex game ever created. It is significantly more complex than chess and it is impossible for even a computer to calculate all possibilities. It requires something that up until now we thought was distinctly human….instinct)