People can be forgiven for feeling depressed these days. The future touted by global leaders is dire.
The 2021-2022 United Nations Human Development Report states that living standards have declined in nine out of ten countries around the world since 2020 and that multiple crises “are hitting us at the same time and interacting to create new threats and make us feel insecure, unsafe, and untrusting of each other.”
The solution, according to the U.N., is to “recognize and treat the global mental health crisis that undermines human development and recognize the polarization that is more deeply dividing us, making collective responses harder.”…