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DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

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  • Presented by Hans Rosling, professor of international health

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Hans Rosling uses dynamic data visualization to explain global population trends, birth rates, and why the population will likely stabilize.

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8 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended for its brilliant use of data visualization to dispel common misconceptions about global population growth.

lentil_soupon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Old Are Eating the Young”

This video seems relevant: link to this video According to Hans Rosling we've reached "peak child", meaning we're almost at 2 children per woman globally. This means population will continue to grow for a few years as globally there are more children than adults but will stabilize after that around the ~11 billion mark. And as long as we stay at that "peak child" number we won't go any further. I really recommend his videos if you haven't seen them.
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jdietrichon Hacker News • Recommends

On “India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents”

…es changed. Parents no longer want three or four children to work on the family farm, they want one or two children to become doctors or engineers. Economic development and the availability of reliable contraception have made that aspiration practical. If you're interested in the topic, I can highly recommend this lecture by the late Hans Rosling: link to this video…
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Isinloron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Greta Thunberg: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood'”

Because there is no world overpopulation. People talk about overpopulation since ancient times. link Currently standard of living are growing almost all over the world and human population is predicted to pick and stabilize at around 11 billion. I really recommend "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population" link to this video What's also interesting in his video is the fact that people tend to be very misinformed about state of the world affairs. E.g. when asked questions about certain statistics, they do worse than random. And the better educated you are the more misinformed you may be.
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Isinloron Hacker News • Recommends

On “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency”

…aid that some part of their offspring will die. It has nothing to do with penalizing having children like they did in China. I really recommend, "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population". He shows how family planning looks like in practice in countries like Bangladesh, so that westerners can imagine what are we talking about: link to this video Dealing with global warming is going bad and we should panic about that, but humanity is making great progress on controlling population growth. There is really no issue with you having 3 children. Western population will be declining anyway as fertility rate in western countries is mostly below 2. Just please, support political, systematic…
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tomjen3on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Who are you calling Malthusian?”

In that case don't worry: link to this video Also consider that the carrying capacity of the world isn't fixed, but depends on how good our technology is (with a potential theoretical upper limit). Well tech is improved by people working on and inventing better technology, right? So you get better technology with more people - and with that you can have more people working on better technology. The biggest mistake, and the one all Malthusians made, is to forget that humans are, on average, net produces not net consumers.
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luggon Hacker News • Recommends

On “When will the world reach 'peak child'?”

He has a lot of good videos out there but this is the one specifically covering Africa / population predictions and the misconceptions / dated knowledge. link to this video
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throw0101aon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The global population pyramid”

There's a good presentation by Hans Rosling about why population will peak at 11B (stick with until 26m): * link to this video Further on he explains why we may not have to worry about resource use given growing prosperity: * link to this video
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Carleeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history”

You should check out Hans Rosling's lectures 1. Statistics points towards the fact that as people become more wealthy, they have less children. It should stagnate around 11 million people by most models. 1 link to this video
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brigandishon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Who Is Firing?”

Since economic growth tends to go hand in hand with better access to health services and greater social freedom, it does. I always enjoy Hans Rosling going through the stats, if you’ve time it’s well worth it link to this video
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throw0101aon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Lancet: World population projections by 2100”

There's a good (though hour-long) presentation by the late Hans Rosling call "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population": * link to this video "Don’t Panic – The Facts About Population": * link
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throw0101aon Hacker News • Recommends

On “This Can’t Go On”

Hans Rosling's presentation "Don't Panic" (produced by the BBC) is pretty good: * link to this video It's an hour long; really interesting.
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jdietrichon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'”

…global fertility rate has halved in 50 years. Even in the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the fertility rate is declining. The fertility rate in Rwanda has more than halved from 8.4 in 1980 to 3.8 today. As far as I can ascertain, Niger is the country on earth with a persistently high fertility rate. Population growth is a solved problem. link to this video…
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lkrameron Hacker News • Mentions

On “US births decline for fourth year in a row, CDC says”

This is not really true. Except for some parts of Africa, the birthrate across the world is declining. The worldwide average is 2.4. Likely the world's population will start decline in actual terms some time in the 2nd half of the 21st century: link link to this video
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drichelon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Overpopulation one of the ten greatest threats to humanity”

Result of a roundtable discussion wuth concerned citizens? Not convinced, I'm with Hans Rosling on this topic link to this video
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guerrillaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ghost cities and abandoned areas with a declining population”

> and the plateau is calculated at 20 billion. According to who? Hans Rosling famously1 didn't think so. 1. link to this video
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rocknoron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing”

…n in western countries would make people more aware, but western governments are only concerned with maintaining global western hegemony which requires falsely accusing the rest of the world and keeping their citizens ignorant. Also, you can't force people to have less children, that's inhumane. I suggest you go through the following links. link link to this video link link link…
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