Percentages, not absolutes. Most of your list could equally be phrased as, highest number of people living...

Not to mention deliberately missing the greater point.. Very much the apocryphal story of the peak time to be alive for the thanksgiving turkey. I mean there are plenty of good argument against the substance of the article without resorting such tactics.

Like seriously, was it ever a good time in history to have kids?

Overall agreed on these, but to nitpick, the world has gotten less democratic over the past decade.

57% in 2005; just under 56% in 2015; probably a bit lower now. (not sure where you get 70% from).

from https://ourworldindata.org/democracy

Ah, I was including anocracies in the number because they are technically democracies and still an improvement over autocracies. Should have rephrased as "70% live in at least a partial democracy"

Conveniently ignoring the existential threat humanity faces from climate change.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

All the democracy and economic growth in the world won't matter a damn if you're starving and on fire.

Humans have shown the ability to adapt to climate change before (Little Ice Age or even the real last Ice Age). There’s no reason to believe we won’t be able to tackle global warming.

Will there be some hardship? Yes. Will it be worse than the “nasty, brutish, and short” life most people had throughout history before the 20th century? I doubt it very much.

There is every reason to believe the real cost of climate change will be in the 10s, perhaps hundreds, of millions of lives.

If you want to class that as “some hardship”, that’s your prerogative.