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In the year 353, a bishop called Hilary of Poitiers predicted that the world would end in just 12 years, in 365. It is a safe bet that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez's recent forecast ends up as inaccurate as his was.

Socialism is back in vogue, especially among America’s college-educated youth. They are too young to remember the Cold War and few study history.

Not only is the proportion of people in poverty at a record low, but, in spite of adding 2 billion to the planet’s population, the overall number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen too.

The amount of vegetation growing on the earth has been increasing every year for at least 30 years.

Yearly net deforestation is fast approaching zero and according to current trends, within the next couple of decades net afforestation will be the norm. This tremendous news is something to truly shout from the treetops.

In 1970, Harvard University biologist George Wald claimed that "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." His prediction would place the end of civilization sometime between 1985 and 2000

Yearly net deforestation is fast approaching zero and according to current trends, within the next couple of decades net afforestation will be the norm. This tremendous news is something to truly shout from the treetops.

Before it was eradicated in 1979, smallpox was one of humanity's oldest diseases. The virus can be traced back to pharaonic Egypt, is thought to have killed between 300-500 million people as late as the 20th century. Enter, Edward Jenner. #HeroesOfProgress

In the year 353, a bishop called Hilary of Poitiers predicted that the world would end in just 12 years, in 365. It is a safe bet that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez's recent forecast ends up as inaccurate as his was.

In 1968, biologist Paul Ehrlich believed that "In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." Today, famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones.