On Balance the World is Changing for the Better

Seeing how he is unbeatable, I'll make my arguments extra tough! *WARNING*: Lots of pictures. Don't blame me if I miss a picture that can't be seen. I can't make sure all of them remain pictures. :PLet's start off with the basics.1. Less people dieAs modern medicine is improving, less people die by disease. The two graphs below [both from. http://blogs.berkeley.edu...] show that fewer and fewer children are dying. Just in case my opponent somehow accuses my source being "biased", I shall provide another graph to back up my information: Japan? Japan's just being weird. :P Besides, it's such a small region, it doesn't really effect the overall resolution anyways. We don't really know whether Japan is changing for the better, but certainly the world is. Thus it is evident, we save lives of innocent children; the world is definitely changing for the better. Now onto argument number two. ..2. Better technology for everbodyAs the world progresses so does its transportation. Before we started off with the first car ever made. .. Now we have ultra-aerodynamic cars. .. . s://encrypted-tbn2. gstatic. com. .. ; alt="" width="708" height="398" />They move gazillions time faster than the first car ever, and are far more efficient. Not to mention we have much cheaper methods than trains--with our new subways all around--and better airplanes--from Wright's first to now, fighter jets and humongous airliners-- transportation is cheaper, easier, and faster than ever. With better transportation, countries can trade more easier, and people can get from place to place easier as well. The world is definitely changing for the better with these technological innovations. Not only so, communication has improved much. Long long ago, we had to use the telegraph. Then we moved on to the first telephone ever. Then we had home phones. .. Cellphones. .. And finally, the iPhone! ! From hard communication, to easier communication, to the addition of internet searches, GPS, and games, our communication device has improved much, and it has become more and more helpful as we have improved. We see the world changing for the better with technology's vast improvements. 3. Poor people are being helped Not only less people are dying, and less people are getting sick, people are getting better medical benefits. "in 2002, only 230,000 people in the developing world were getting treatment with lifesaving but expensive antiretroviral medicines. " www. mistergui. com/downloads/The%20Case%20for%20Optimism. doc says. "Today, in part because the pharmaceutical industry moved from being a low-volume, high-margin business to a low-margin, high-volume one with guaranteed payments, that number is 8 million. " --. http://content.time.com.... Not only so, " in the 25 years leading up to the current economic crisis, more people worldwide moved from poverty to the middle class than at any other time in history. " The next page of this article, . http://content.time.com..., states. Now, why is this important, other than saving people's lives as said in the first argument? Well, you see, thievery is mostly due to poor people not being able to make enough money for themselves or their family, and thus forced to steal from others. But since they are helped and no longer have to pay so much for medication, they can delve their efforts into other parts of financial responsibility and steal less, if they even continue to steal. This argument also has another (surprising) side effect. It's actually not technically a side effect. It's actually a side related policy that caused to help out people. You see, Brazil managed to efficiently cut its deforestation rates by 75%. [source: . http://rainforests.mongabay.com...]How does this have to do with helping poor people? Well you can't help people without sufficient economy right? So therefore Brazil cut down on its oil spending, creating new jobs to support the economy, and maximizing the hydropower. Brazil, in an effort to change its own economy, helps its people. This of course applies to most other countries as well. They want to help their government and society? They have to start with the people. Thus, governments in their attempt to grow in power and influence, inevitably improve people's lives--and the environment for the animals' lives-- for the better. Now let's go to. .. .4. Human rightsHumans are gaining more and more rights as revolutions and rebellions occur. From the overall natural rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness [. http://www.crf-usa.org...] to the voting rights of all men, including blacks, then to the civil war, where slavery was finally abolished, and recently, women gaining "equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights. " [. http://www.infoplease.com...] Thus we see here, the rights progress, from everyone having practically completely different statuses--white men, black men, and women--transform into the men versus woman movement, and finally our people as one. Nowadays, pretty much the only right that women don't have is topless rights. We're working on that, though. After some debate we'll come to a good conclusion and do women justice. I have like 2,500 characters left but I can't really think of anything I haven't covered. Technology improved and helps everyone in their usual lives. People's living styles improved--with their environment around them improving too- and they are also gaining more rights as they continue to fight for themselves. The world is definitely changing for the better. Onto you, mighty unbeaten JayConar.