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The Quiet Revolution
In 1820, one person in ten could read. Literacy spread slowly, then all at once, and carried poverty, fertility, and civic life with it.
COMING SOON
The world is improving
faster than it ever has.
This book is the proof.
THE NUMBERS
This is not hope, for the record.
The six most important statistics in humanity have improved drastically in the last hundred years. In this book, we break down their movement, what predicated it, and the effects. Press play and watch the century move.
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Extreme poverty · share of people
78%
Two voices. Call and response.
Adult literacy · share who can read
33%
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Children per woman · global average
5.9
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Adults with a bank account
5%
1.7 billion people newly inside the financial system.
Cost of solar power · index, 2010 = 100
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A ninety percent collapse, faster than any model predicted.
India wheat yield · kg per hectare
720
The Green Revolution, measured in grain.
THE BOOK
One core argument, six fronts of progress.
Each chapter pairs a mechanism with its effect. One author writes the input. The other writes the outcome. Together they build the case across the domains where the gains are largest and least reported. The result is a fact based outlook from the last 100 years.
02
The Population Bomb That Wasn't
The catastrophe the world braced for never arrived. Educated women, smaller families, and a stabilizing curve answered the panic.
03
The Train Running Everywhere
The global financial system was once Manhattan without a subway. A decade of rails put 1.7 billion people aboard.
04
Bending the Curve
Climate change is real and man-made. What is disputed is the verdict that it is too late. Clean energy is answering faster than the models.
05
Faster Than Famine
One man in a Mexican wheat field changed the cost of a failed harvest. Naturally occurring famine ended as a permanent condition of human life.
06
Healthcare Outpacing Violence
For the first time in the record, medicine is saving lives faster than conflict is taking them. The math has quietly flipped.
The authors
Call and response.
Tracing the mechanism and then speaking to its effect.
Author
Christopher Mattheu
Mattheu started as a speechwriter at Westminster’s Institute of Economic Affairs, where he wrote the keynote speech for the international THINK Conference in 2017, titled Bad Stats and Fake News.
He works in entertainment marketing in New York City.
Author
Kathleen Elkins
Elkins was a three-time national tennis champion Williams University, She has been a financial journalist for over a decade, writing on international financial markets and the discipline of building wealth.
She works in financial reporting in Los Angeles.
THE JOURNAL
Notes furthering the argument.
Essays, excerpts, and further research from the authors.
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