For 2015’s first edition of “In the News,” we’ll take a look back at the biggest stories of 2014, what the world was reading, and what trends affected us most.
- Turbulent Times for Air Travel
- The Ebola Epidemic
- Conflict in Ukraine
Turbulent Times for Air Travel
With a Malaysia Airlines flight going missing over the Indian Ocean and another being shot down over the troubled areas of eastern Ukraine, as well as numerous headlines depicting nearly tragic air accidents the world over, it’s been a rough year for the air travel industry. However, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Reuters, air travel is getting safer overall. They have charted a consistent decline in both air travel accidents and fatalities since 2000 and that trend continued this year.
The Ebola Epidemic
Beginning in February of 2014, an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa gripped the region and the imagination of the world. This particularly virulent disease, portrayed most notably in the film “Outbreak,” has ravaged Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, and there were select cases reported in the United States, Spain, and Scotland. The WHO (World Health Organization) has been faulted for its seemingly slow response to the crisis, but it looks as though Ebola should be contained sometime in 2015.
Conflict in Ukraine
Ukraine’s leader, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted early in 2014 by activists in favor of closer ties with the European Union, but since then the country has been in chaos. In March, the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine’s southeast voted to join the Russian Federation which has led to international uproar and revolution in eastern Ukraine. Many international experts think this is the tensest time since the end of the Cold War.
The World is Getting Better
In spite of the crises plastered all over the front pages of the world’s newspapers, the world is getting better. According to OurWorldInData.org, there is very clear evidence that the increasingly global village is becoming less violent and more tolerant, that we are leading healthier lives overall, and that poverty is on the decline around the world.
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