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I've been thinking about the points Rosling made and also reading a bit about him. Such a shame he didn't achieve his aim of reaching the top of the population pyramid so that he could 'study more statistics'! He really does make a strong argument that the best thing to do about world population is to eradicate extreme poverty (provide the support to the dollar a day people so that they become ten dollar a day people) and the rest will look after itself. And good on him for castigating the British for their ignorance of how the world has changed in the last few decades! However, as well as correctly pointing out that the world is doing better than most people think, I think he needed to stress just how much of a threat environmental degradation and global heating will be to the very people whose lives he wants to see improved. It's those people on a dollar a day who are living on the most marginal land that will be affected the most by reduced crop yields caused by the increased droughts, floods and temperatures of the future.
Mansoor - sorry for taking over your thread and changing the subject a bit. I do strongly recommend those videos that nice gaijin posted.
Mansoor - sorry for taking over your thread and changing the subject a bit. I do strongly recommend those videos that nice gaijin posted.