THE VIDEO SHELF · global population growth
Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a data-driven, worldview-changing explanation of why global population will level off.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- global population growth
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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: [VIDEO]
radicalbyte on Hacker News · 2017-02
In Hans Rosling has diedWhile I didn’t read the article, telling from the title this talk by Hans Rosling could be a resourceful addition to the topic: [VIDEO]
polycaster on Hacker News · 2020-06
In The world might run out of people (2019)
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