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2012 Best Year Ever For the World

Description:2012 is the best year ever for the world acccording to one magazine. Has 2012 been the best year ever for the world?When we think about what's happening around us and in other parts of the globe, we seem to be inundated with problems - poor economic growth, wars, mass shootings, environmental crisis, and so on.Inspite of all the challenges, relatively speaking, could this have been the best year for human civilization ever? (1:21)

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