Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as a data-driven, worldview-changing explanation of why global population will level off.
What it is
Hans Rosling's TED@Cannes talk uses boxes and animated data graphics to show how world population will grow to about 9 billion. He argues that raising living standards for the poorest is what reduces population growth.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec radicalbyte · 2017-02 · on “Hans Rosling has died”
Sad day. RIP. For some context: Hans is famous here for his fantastic series of TED talks which cover population growth, poverty and development. Totally changed (well, confirmed) my world view. Start here: [this video]
Recommends polycaster · 2020-06 · on “The world might run out of people (2019)”
While I didn’t read the article, telling from the title this talk by Hans Rosling could be a resourceful addition to the topic: [this video]
Cites ZeroGravitas · 2013-02 · on “Meet the Man with a Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming”
Hans Rosling seems to think we'll top out at 10 billion. [this video] and the main mechanism is, counter-intuitively, reducing child mortality in the poorest areas.
Cites sdoering · 2016-08 · on “By 2030, 56 countries will have more people aged 65+ than children under 15”
Whenever I read things like this. I am reminded of Hans Rosling's "Global population growth, box by box"[1]. The only question is, how to transition to a "steady state economy"[2][3] or "non growth economies", when population really reaches some kind of equilibrium. As growth is the only concept humans for the last tens of thousands of years knew, this transition, while absolutely necessary, will be hard and hurt lots of people I believe. [1]: [this video] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK]