Heh, this sounds like a standard text book response. It's been decades since for example people have been some much divided.

You like data? Check the ocean water temperatures. You like data? Check how many animal species go extinct every day.

You like data? Heck, let's make it easy. Check the life expectancy in most countries which today is back to 1996. And it keeps dropping. Does a dropping life expectancy sound like progress to you? :)

There's a lot of problems humanity has to face this decade. We can pretend they don't exist, but wishful thinking won't solve them. The train is about to hit the wall, you can pretend it doesn't exist only for so long.