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Watching this on BBC iPlayer.
More educated people than me can argue his facts and interpretations, but the most fascinating and thought provoking programme on the subject I've watched in years. My ignorance of facts is humbling.
Also has Jnr enthralled.
Watch it if you can.
I think it's been on twice before. Good programme. I the future is quite bright.
His glass is certainly more than half full.
Particularly impressed at his digs at the British university system given the scores that were so much lower than the chimps.....until you realised that most politicians and policy makers are university educated 😕
Is that the one with the Scandanavian (Rousling?) fellow and the cool visualisations and graphics?
That's the one
That is good!
The farmer in Mozambique who said [u][i]"a house without a bike is not a home"[/i][/u] was really humbling.
His was not a possession point of view but a means of transport and efficiency of everyday tasks involving distance.
I saw this a while back when it first came out. i thoroughly enjoyed it too. Gives you a warm feeling that despite all the pessimistic doom and gloom stuff you read in the media and on some threads on forums like this, the world is actually becoming a better place - and is a better place than it was 10 years ago for sure. It takes time, and you get the odd crisis along the way (it feels like there are a few crisis around us at the moment), but overall we're heading in the right direction. We need more stuff like this on TV - a bit of fact in amongst the constant noise of BS we're force fed everyday to put things into perspective.
Hmm, very interesting program and full of hope etc. However, we still have 3 billion+ to go which is about half as many people as there currently are. We need to remember that when Europe had its population explosion it led to all sorts of problems (famine, wars, wish for a better life) that resulted in mass emigration to the new world and colonies. With Africa and Asia going through the same process now we are only just beginning to see the same process; except they have quite a few less choices of where to go.
Whilst it is good to know that world population is set to stabilise, I still think it would be a good long term goal to try and educate towards reducing world population sooner rather than later.