kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3KYc4BteKpoY5o Hans Rosling, the expert statistician. He totally outclasses Thomas Malthus.
@JanOosthoek4 жыл бұрын
Yes, Rosling's talk is fascinating and I can recommend it to anyone interested in population issues.
@Anigokks5 жыл бұрын
Great video!! Thanks for sharing 😊🙌
@blixten29285 жыл бұрын
I hope to use this in my course in Environmental History. There are so FEW useful videos, I am amazed and saddened!
@johnsimpsonkirkpatrickhist13725 жыл бұрын
A fascinating video.
@mojophe16176 жыл бұрын
No food shortage in Ireland. During the height of the Great Hunger 90 million tons of food was exported from Ireland to England. There was enough food to feed a population of 19 million people in Ireland. The food was witheld from the Irish causing forced starvation. When you try to explain things it's important to research deeply.
@pcka125 жыл бұрын
Margaret Phelan this is also the first example of attempts at ‘relief’ when supply of ‘Indian corn’ set up by ‘Tories’ was prevented by incoming ‘Whig’ (now ‘Liberal’) government- cruel - !
@prisoneroftech22376 жыл бұрын
A small group of people need to stop hoarding and monopolizing the earth's resources. Currently the millions that are dying of lack of basic nutrition and water - can be easily solved if the resources are distributed properly.
@nancyturman6 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Intellectually very inspirational.
@avelasphesihle21726 жыл бұрын
thanx this is really helpful
@cybermacaque66227 жыл бұрын
thank you very much for this video sir, definitely helpful when studying economics ^^ Hope you will do some other ones !
@makeleen7 жыл бұрын
This is an exceptional movie. In 25 minutes the producer takes us through our human environmental history. The tone is somber but not polemic. Good for any class. The article link in the other comment is not correct: www.whp-journals.co.uk/GE/Articles/Poll.pdf Thank you Jan Oosthoek.
@blankusername57808 жыл бұрын
Thomas Malthus' irrelevant and outdated theories on Population were actually plagiarized from Venetian Monk, Giamarria Ortes in his 1790 treatise, Reflessioni Sulla Populazione Delle Nazioni.
@JanOosthoek8 жыл бұрын
Malthus was not the first to come up with the idea that population growth would outstrip food supply. Indeed, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Townsend, Giammaria Ortes and others preceded him. Malthus acknowledged these and other predecessors.
@WilliamAshleyOnline9 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that this study sort of "environmental history" matches heavily the anthropological and archaeological studies perspectives, I've studied.
@davepx19 жыл бұрын
Population growth did not "drive people to the margins of subsistence", inequality did. Malthus was wrong. Global food supply has consistently outstripped population growth: how we distribute the goods is another matter. Claiming a 21st-century slowing of crop yield growth as support for Malthus is spurious, as population growth is slowing too, and farmers don't plant to beat records, they plant to sell to people - and they plant more to sell to more people. Malthus was an intelligent man nonetheless. Right now as he saw a world with most of the people it'll ever have and more than enough to go round but without the political will or moral quality to share it, shovelling more than a third of its grain into livestock for cheap meat while millions go without basic foodstuffs, he'd be saying, "Oops".
@artjomwilhelm40267 жыл бұрын
i have read the first of his books. he mentions inequality. but imagine we would give everyone the same share of food. in africa the population will start to grow like crazy until not enough food is left anymore. if we dont control the water and food supply and let the population expand like hell it will be a disaster. also global food supply has outstripped population growth. yes. of course it does. for the exact reason that we want more subsistence. the cause is not the effect. no one would produce food for less profit.
@bunney32729 жыл бұрын
Malthus was right. We did not listen to him, and just look at the state of our planet!
@JanOosthoek9 жыл бұрын
New Exploring Environmental History podcast episode: "The UK National Grid: history of an energy landscape and its impacts" We take electricity for granted and do not think of where it comes from when we switch on a light or use an electrical appliance. But behind the electricity coming out of a wall socket lays an entire energy landscape of poles, wires, electrical substations and power stations. It is imposed on the landscape like a gigantic web, a grid that has become almost part of the natural scenery. Just over a century ago this electricity grid did not exist. Episode 66 of the Exploring Environmental History podcast explores the history of the UK National Grid with Cambridge based PhD candidate Kayt Button. She discusses how the coming of the electricity grid changed people’s lives, its environmental impacts and how the past informs the future development of the grid. Listen to the podcast: www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#66
@NenadMaljkovic9 жыл бұрын
Here's the link to the article: www.whp-journals.co.uk/GE/Poll.pdf
@JanOosthoek10 жыл бұрын
@JanOosthoek10 жыл бұрын
A new episode of the Exploring Environmental History podcast has been published. It features an interview with Cameron Muir, author of the recently published book "The broken Promise of Agricultural Progress". The intro of the podcast has been turned into a short video visualising the struggle of Australian farmers with the unpredictable climate and environment of inland Australia. Listen to the podcast episode at www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#61
@JanOosthoek10 жыл бұрын
***** you are right that this is the best way to share. Just created this post after the one on the community and realised that I could put a link to the podcast in the text. Will repost video version on the community.
@JanOosthoek10 жыл бұрын
I have created a new short video that explores the ideas of Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) and his ideas about the growth of the human population. The video investigates the background of Malthus' ideas, the mathematical basis of it and how it influenced the debate surrounding population growth in the latter half of 20th century. The video concludes with a brief discussion asking whether Malthus' predictions have come true or not in the light of the high world food prices in the first decade of the 21st century. I guess that this video would be useful for students to teach them about Malthus. Feel free to use it in the classroom and for assignments!
@standalby69498 жыл бұрын
Here in Britain we've seen the rise of cheap supermarkets like ALDI , LIDIL & the like , food prices have come down along with the population rate , we don't know what is waiting for us around the corner