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Relevant: "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08

• vlehto 11y ago
  From the article: >The declining birth rate elsewhere has brought the world to the verge of what Hans Rosling, a Swedish demographer, calls “peak child” But then: >The revision of population predictions for Africa partly reflects the fact that HIV/AIDS has not proved quite as catastrophic for the continent as seemed likely ten years ago.
• deepnet 11y ago
  In the parent video Hans Rosling objects to the use of the adjective 'explosion' when referring to other peoples children. This comes from the 1950's 'red-scare' idea that foreign communists would have lots of babies who would grow and then invade America. He goes on to show that such a description of the statistics is inaccurate and scare-mongering.