'Finding More Reason for Optimism?' (Jonathan Bock joins Glenn) - 3/7/18
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 112 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Blaze Radio Network |
| 0:05.0 | On demand |
| 0:08.0 | Love, courage, truth, glad, bad |
| 0:14.0 | You know normally I begin the program and I'm like, hey, things suck today |
| 0:20.0 | Um, I want to try something new, I want to try something different |
| 0:26.0 | Things don't suck as much as we all think |
| 0:29.0 | And if we're going to make it, we have to start looking at the things that are true |
| 0:35.0 | That things aren't as bad as we think in all categories |
| 0:41.0 | For instance, during the 1960s it was predicted that hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of people would soon die of hunger |
| 0:51.0 | In a report from 2015, global malnutrition has declined now to the lowest level in history |
| 0:59.0 | Nearly all malnutrition that persists is caused by distribution failures or by government corruption not by lack of supply |
| 1:08.0 | Hunger may be eliminated in our lifetime |
| 1:13.0 | Resources, they said they would all be exhausted by in the 1970s I remember well there be no oil |
| 1:20.0 | There be no natural gas, there be nothing no coal you'll use it all up |
| 1:27.0 | Petroleum and natural gas it was but was supposed to be gone by the year 2000 |
| 1:32.0 | We were going to be a society desperate for fuel |
| 1:37.0 | That's not true |
| 1:40.0 | They are still abundant resources have not been depleted |
| 1:45.0 | There are also no runaway plagues, unstoppable outbreaks of super viruses and mutations were said to menace a growing world |
| 1:55.0 | Instead, now listen to this, nearly all disease rates are in decline including the rates of cancer |
| 2:04.0 | I don't know, there's something going on, there's the cancer is getting so bad, everything's causing cancer |
| 2:10.0 | It's all in decline |
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