Michael Hanlon

There’s no time like the present

Stop moaning, says Michael Hanlon. Forget global warming and health scares. We live in the happiest, healthiest and most peaceful era in human history

issue 07 August 2004

The world is, we are told day after day, week after week, going to hell in a handcart. After the most brutal, catastrophic and inhuman century in history, the new millennium has kicked off in the way it clearly intends to go on. War, famine and pestilence stalk the savannahs and forests of Africa.

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