“Life expectancy in Kenya increased by almost ten years between 2003 and 2013,” Norberg writes. “After having lived, loved and struggled for a whole decade, the average person in Kenya had not lost a single year of their remaining lifetime. Everyone got ten years older, yet death had not come.a step closer.”

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, pp. 54-55