>I cannot see how such statistics can be interpreted as anything other than extraordinarily positive, and I just hope the trend continues.
I hope I live to see the trend continue. The long-term trend, after all, continued towards improvement throughout, for instance, the 1930s and 1940s, which many of us would think of as the worst nightmare humanity ever lived through. And of which, coincidentally, historians and other scholars are warning us that we're lurching into a repeat, like zombies who somehow can't do what everyone agrees would have avoided the last world war, the last Holocaust, the last nuclear bombing.
I hope I live to see the trend continue. The long-term trend, after all, continued towards improvement throughout, for instance, the 1930s and 1940s, which many of us would think of as the worst nightmare humanity ever lived through. And of which, coincidentally, historians and other scholars are warning us that we're lurching into a repeat, like zombies who somehow can't do what everyone agrees would have avoided the last world war, the last Holocaust, the last nuclear bombing.