I agree that the media likes to over-blow the negatives as negative news sell more papers than positive ones.

I also agree that looking at the provided statistics there is vast improvements in many important areas, facets of human life.

And I definitely do not want to destroy budding optimism as I agree with the some of the comments that for any healing, recovery the positive mindset is the most important.

But I would still recommend caution with becoming overly optimistic, as keeping our heads above the clouds, losing critical self-assessment can be just as harmful as negative projections.

If we look at humanity from systemic point of view, and instead of isolated statistics we look at the whole picture, we can see that our overall direction is simply wrong.

We are still forcing an unnatural, unsustainable structure within the closed and finite natural system.

We can twist things as much as we want but human beings are not outside or above the natural system, we evolved from it and we are existing still within it.

Thus the present, modern human lifestyle, our whole socio-economic system that is built on excessive, artificial demand, overproduction and over-consumption goes directly against the general balance and homoeostasis of the vast natural system. And this cannot be maintained infinitely and most of the signs, the daily events of the ongoing global crisis suggest that we have already passed the point of no-return and what we do has become self-destructive.

The other systemic issue connects to our world being global. We have become interconnected and interdependent. And although superficially there is hardly anybody who disputes this, when we look at our day to day life and general processes in human society, they are still based on subjective, self-centred calculations, ruthless competition, isolationist policies, succeeding at the expense of others. This attitude, direction is again self-destructive, it is like being cancer cells in a single, interconnected body.

We need to get used to looking at the world in a systemic fashion, specific, isolated statistics will not give us the full picture, not to mention how statistics can be easily manipulated to suit certain bias, personal motifs.

Only this way, using the constant honest, critical self-assessment and subsequent self-adjustment only human beings are capable of doing can we build a truly successful and sustainable human system, future.