The Optimistic Outlook

The Optimistic Outlook

Madsen Pirie
President, Adam Smith Institute

This book, ‘The Optimistic Outlook,’ is written to restore perspective. It does not deny the gravity of the world’s problems. Global warming, poverty, and the misuse of power remain urgent challenges, But it argues that despair is neither accurate nor useful. Across energy, medicine, biology, agriculture, and environmental restoration, evidence points to accelerating improvement, progress not driven by wishful thinking, but by science, ingenuity, and collaboration on a scale unmatched in the past.

The data reveals a story that is not of decline, but of possibility.