Bruno Tertrais, author of "The Apocalypse is not Tomorrow, calls for an end to all the doom and gloom. At the Spring Conference of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (alfi) in Luxembourg he stressed not to have a pessimistic view of the world because most long-term trends are positive. A specialist in International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), he demonstrated that our living conditions are improving. According to Bruno Tertrais, the world population is on average becoming richer, and life expectancy has been constantly rising. Furthermore, the world is less exposed to hunger, disease, poverty and violence than ever before. Aware of the fact that the world is built on fear and dismay, he argues that the wide circulation...
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