TED Talk: Hans Rosling on Global Population Growth
18 July 2010
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The key to achieving sustainable, global population growth, according to Doctor Hans Rosling in a recent TED Talk, is raising the standard of living of the world’s poor.
But, isn’t a higher living standard correlated with increased use of energy and raw materials (the ‘factor 32′ effect) and thus bad for the planet? While the first part of the question is valid, counter-intuitively, the answer is “no”.
Famed for his informal motto: “Let my dataset change your mindset”, Professor Rosling, using unlikely props and eye-popping animations, explains the reasoning (and data) behind his not-so-radical assertion…
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