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Hans Rosling's "Don't Panic" documentary presents some interesting findings about population and third-world countries. http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-pa

Hans Rosling's "Don't Panic" documentary presents some interesting findings about population and third-world countries. http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/ http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...

noselasd 12y ago
His TED talks are well worth watching too: * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_d... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  I strongly recommend those talks. The 'magic washing machine' talk is beautiful. One of my favourite quotes of all time comes from it. And what we said, my mother and me, "Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books."
  - agumonkey 12y ago
    IIRC that talk had a powerful ending (beside that quote).
    - zo1 12y ago
      Are you referring to the one where he performs sword eating? (I kid you not)
- Evgeny 12y ago
  There goes my weekend! Thank you so much.
eiliant 12y ago
Is there a tl:dr of the video?
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Don't worry, be happy. Me? I'm worrying.
- InclinedPlane 12y ago
  tl;dr the world is developing and getting richer, and a natural consequence of that is declining fertility (birth) rates, preventing the runaway population "bomb" that so many people have feared.
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    s/natural/statistically correlated/ There are a number of countries getting wealthier which don't have falling birth rates. Most are oil exporting. Tom "Do the Math" Murphy discusses this: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/ http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-populat... Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain, especially.
dredmorbius 12y ago
Bill Gates, good friend of Roslings, is far more candid in private than his public appearances and shareholders letters reveal: Appearing in The London Times in May, 2009, now only available through The Internet Archive: "Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation" http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6350303.ece http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timeson... "Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months. "Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat. "'This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,' said the guest. 'They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.'" Emphasis added. More on this by me: http://redd.it/237yxs http://redd.it/237yxs
- joeclark77 12y ago
  Bill and Melinda Gates are abortion ideologues, in fact the biggest private funders of abortion in the world (at least $117 million in direct funding, cf. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/16/gates-foundation-gave-117-million-to-the-two-biggest-abortion-businesses/ http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/16/gates-foundation-gave-117...). Bill's father was apparently a bigshot in Planned Parenthood. One has to wonder if they really support abortion because they perceive a population problem, or if it isn't the other way around.
  - sp3000 12y ago
    How exactly does one become an abortion ideologue? I do know of anti-abortion ideologues. Providing access to birth control so women can take more control over their lives, and in the process providing health and economic stability should be lauded. That is the reason most sane people support the work of Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Luc 12y ago
He's worth following on Twitter, too, if that's your thing. His tweets are mostly information and graphs, not noise. https://twitter.com/HansRosling https://twitter.com/HansRosling
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noselasd 12y ago

His TED talks are well worth watching too: * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_o... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_d... * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv * http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...

TeMPOraL 12y ago
I strongly recommend those talks. The 'magic washing machine' talk is beautiful. One of my favourite quotes of all time comes from it. And what we said, my mother and me, "Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books."
- agumonkey 12y ago
  IIRC that talk had a powerful ending (beside that quote).
  - zo1 12y ago
    Are you referring to the one where he performs sword eating? (I kid you not)
Evgeny 12y ago
There goes my weekend! Thank you so much.

eiliant 12y ago

Is there a tl:dr of the video?

dredmorbius 12y ago
Don't worry, be happy. Me? I'm worrying.
InclinedPlane 12y ago
tl;dr the world is developing and getting richer, and a natural consequence of that is declining fertility (birth) rates, preventing the runaway population "bomb" that so many people have feared.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  s/natural/statistically correlated/ There are a number of countries getting wealthier which don't have falling birth rates. Most are oil exporting. Tom "Do the Math" Murphy discusses this: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/ http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-populat... Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain, especially.

dredmorbius 12y ago

Bill Gates, good friend of Roslings, is far more candid in private than his public appearances and shareholders letters reveal: Appearing in The London Times in May, 2009, now only available through The Internet Archive: "Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation" http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6350303.ece http://web.archive.org/web/20100106010617/http://www.timeson... "Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gives more than £2 billion a year to good causes, attended the Rockefeller summit. She said the billionaires met to “discuss how to increase giving” and they intended to “continue the dialogue” over the next few months. "Another guest said there was “nothing as crude as a vote” but a consensus emerged that they would back a strategy in which population growth would be tackled as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat. "'This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers,' said the guest. 'They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming.'" Emphasis added. More on this by me: http://redd.it/237yxs http://redd.it/237yxs

joeclark77 12y ago
Bill and Melinda Gates are abortion ideologues, in fact the biggest private funders of abortion in the world (at least $117 million in direct funding, cf. http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/16/gates-foundation-gave-117-million-to-the-two-biggest-abortion-businesses/ http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/16/gates-foundation-gave-117...). Bill's father was apparently a bigshot in Planned Parenthood. One has to wonder if they really support abortion because they perceive a population problem, or if it isn't the other way around.
- sp3000 12y ago
  How exactly does one become an abortion ideologue? I do know of anti-abortion ideologues. Providing access to birth control so women can take more control over their lives, and in the process providing health and economic stability should be lauded. That is the reason most sane people support the work of Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Luc 12y ago

He's worth following on Twitter, too, if that's your thing. His tweets are mostly information and graphs, not noise. https://twitter.com/HansRosling https://twitter.com/HansRosling

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