'Our Covid-cursed and globally-warming times need a book like this. It puts faith in humanity on a firm foundation.' Photo: Humankind book cover
Humankind: A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman
Author: Rutger Bregman. Review by Reg Naulty
by Reg Naulty
14th August 2020
This book presents scientific evidence showing that it is reasonable to hold a more realistic and positive view of human nature than is common. Many environmentalists see humans as a destructive plague on the earth. And the news gives a dispiriting picture of human beings. But Rutger Bregman points out that every day for the last twenty-five years the news could instead have truthfully reported that extreme poverty had come down by 137,000 since yesterday.
