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Not the End of the World
- musicale 3y agoHans Rosling may have been one of the few TED presenters actually worth watching.
- mattpallissard 3y agoAgreed, it's what TED should have been; an actual expert in the field that also has a knack for speaking and puts on an excellent presentation with visualizations to boot. "The best stats you've ever seen" is a good one for those interested. https://youtu.be/usdJgEwMinM https://youtu.be/usdJgEwMinM
- more_corn 3y ago[flagged]
- RGamma 3y agoYeah Bill, we got it. Life is good iff you are homo sapiens.
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- korantu 3y agoThe point is general for all living things, though: > air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics, and overfishing. On most of these fronts, things are worse today than they were in the distant past. But on all of them, progress has been made recently, and we’re on a better trajectory than most people assume—even though that rarely makes the end-of-the-world headlines dominating the news.
- RGamma 3y agoI'd really like to believe that and that it's not just a change in the fourth derivative. And at least half the global population hasn't even started properly consuming yet...