Only? ONLY?
I think 40% is pretty darned amazing, considering how many people in the world can’t even sufficiently feed themselves, have access to clean water or read.
Yeah...what else in human history has reached 49% of the globe’s population in only 25 years? The author is an idiot who has it backward.
For perspective, I read yesterday that it took 2,000 years for AGRICULTURE to spread out of the Near East to the Balkans about 1,500 miles away! It didn’t say why people didn’t spread the ag news on the ‘net, though.