I should have posted this on Thanksgiving, but why restrict being thankful to just one day!?

From Foreign Policy magazine, 5 reasons we should all be thankful:

1. Your plane isn’t going to crash! Better safety standards make air flight incredibly safe! (I can vouch for this one!)
2. Fewer kids are dying. Health care basics like vaccines, mosquito nets, breastfeeding, clean water and better access to health professionals are saving children’s lives.
3. Wars are history. Armed conflicts fell by 40 percent between 1993 and 2003.
4. Poverty is down. Fewer people are living on $1 a day - from 1.5 billion people in 1981 to 985 million in 2004.
5. You’re living to retirement. We’re living longer lives all over the globe thanks to modern medicine and improved sanitation.

Sounds great to me! And here I thought the end of the world was nigh. Read more details at FP.