April 24 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏

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Nearly 20 million measles deaths averted in Africa since 2000

Measles vaccines in Africa have prevented an estimated 19.5 million deaths since 2000 — roughly 800,000 lives saved every year for nearly a quarter century.

A new WHO and Gavi analysis credits consistent investment in immunization and strong political commitment for the gains. Coverage for the critical second measles dose climbed more than tenfold over that stretch, from 5 percent in 2000 to 55 percent in 2024, as 44 African countries added the dose to their routine immunization schedules. In 2025, Cabo Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles became the first sub-Saharan nations to officially eliminate measles and rubella, a milestone once considered out of reach.

The story is a powerful reminder that global health progress, though uneven, compounds quietly over decades — and that protecting children anywhere strengthens the case for protecting them everywhere.

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Living in a VUCA world (pt. 2)

Today's world is almost impossibly vast. But the world has also grown almost impossibly complex. There are not only more and larger cultural, economic, institutional, and political systems to understand and navigate, but exponentially more connections and interdependencies among them all.

This increasing complexity creates a dense, confusing web of cause and effect. In a simple system, outcomes are predictable. You press down on the gas pedal and the car goes faster. But as a system grows more complex, outcomes become increasingly unpredictable, making it much more difficult to achieve your desired effect on the world.

You might, for example, set out to avoid wildfires and thus vigilantly extinguish even the smallest of brushfires. But soon you realize that not burning away the underbrush makes a devastating, uncontrolled wildfire much more likely. You then try to enact controlled burns to clear the underbrush, only for the wind to come and spread it miles around in every direction, creating uncontrolled burns.

In complex systems, there is no clear, simple, predictable way to produce the outcome you want.

Such complexity is a hallmark of modern life. We are constantly facing situations and contexts where a robust, stable understanding of what is happening around us and how to elicit the outcomes we desire eludes us. We see this in the unpredictable, compounding impacts of the climate crisis; the ebbs and flows of the global economy; and the increasing power and pervasiveness of artificial intelligence.

Some call this new reality "VUCA" meaning our worlds are increasingly:

• Volatile: Subject to rapid, unexpected change
• Uncertain: Lacking predictability or relevant information
• Complex: Lacking a clear or even coherent chain of cause and effect
• Ambiguous: Lacking an obvious meaning or interpretation

We can certainly become paralyzed by choice overload. But in our modern VUCA world we can also become paralyzed by the increasing volume of unknowns and unknowables and the increasingly confusing relationship between what we do and how it affects the world.

This is Part 2 of a three-part series. Stay tuned for the final part on Monday.

Peter Schulte Coach, writer, recovering hustle hero. ​​​

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