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By your own link, statistics have reversed and just in 2019-2020 alone an increase of 8 million people fell into extreme poverty. Going by UN metrics, we're actually seeing a stabilization in the "dramatic improvements", and we're struggling to break past the ~8% mark. We're talking about a $1.90 poverty line v a $2.15 poverty line, and that sent the rate from 8.4 to 9.3[1]. In that same document, the UN had to adjust their goal of hitting 3% under extreme poverty by 2030.

How does this not justify what the above person stated, poverty is running rampant? More than 600 million people are still in extreme poverty. A record 100 million are displaced due to conflict in their countries. So I have to ask what exactly is unbelievably counter-productive here? I would argue that placating ourselves is.

[1:14] https://social.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/...

>>wabore+(OP)
Okay, thank you for your link. I really did find it interesting.

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Setbacks, yes. But If I can read a graph (pg 15 of your link), the set back of a global pandemic in 2020 took us to 2015 levels. and we're looking to recover to our per-pandemic levels in 2024.

We might be getting into personal perspectives here... but that seems like a reasonably proportionate setback.