Matt Ridley: Welcome to this podcast about Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, a fabulous new book by Ron Bailey and Marian Tupy, a book that I’ve been longing to get my hands on because it’s exactly what every schoolchild needs to read, every university student needs to read to escape the indoctrination in pessimism that young people get and that I got in the 1970s when I was told the future was bleak on all sorts of leve