Corpus Christi Coastal Bent Episode 1: Is the World Getting Better or Worse??

Prometheus Unbound Broadcast Initiative

In the very first episode of the Corpus Christi Coastal Bent Podcast Scott Brooks and Jeffery Delgado discuss Steven Pinker's New Book, Enlightenment Now the case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and address the question, "is the world getting better or worse??" Is there more war now more than ever? Is over-population going to end life on the planet as we know it? Is the developed world spiraling toward an ecological apocalypse? All of these issues and more are discussed on the very first landmark episode of the Corpus Christi Coastal Bent Podcast.

Sources:

Humanprogress.org

The New Yorker article : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/are-things-getting-better-or-worse

NPR Articles : https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/15/593831564/the-disconnect-between-perceived-danger-in-u-s-schools-and-reality

Pew Research Center : https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/

Brennan Center for Justice : https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/americas-faulty-perception-crime-rates

Washington Post Article : https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-people-have-significantly-declined-experts-say/2018/05/03/d5eab374-4349-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.831e865f610f

Heritage Foundation : https://www.heritage.org/

Cato Institute : https://www.cato.org/