Hans Rosling's Yardstick of Wealth - Don't Panic - The Truth About Population - BBC Two

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03h8r1j Hans Rosling is famous for presenting public data about the world with the style and timing of a stand-up comedian and the most elegant and innovative infographic technology, all to tell a gripping story of the world's past, present and future development.
In this extract from Wingspan Production's 'Don't Panic-The Truth About Population' he lines up the world's seven billion people from poor to rich to reveal how much each of us earn per day -- from those who barely afford flip-flops to those looking forward to space-tourism.
This is the story of all of us: and what Hans reveals, with the aid of 3D-holographic technology, a couple of jokes and a step ladder, is that the richest billion are fundamentally misunderstanding almost everyone else.
Get all the data from Rosling's Gapminder Foundation:
www.gapminder.org/world/
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[@dewinthemorning]

I just watched the whole programme "Don't Panic" on bbc2. Very, very interesting! It shows how much just a little improvement, like buying a bicycle, means to the very poor.

[@freakrainbo]

That kinky music when he climbs the ladder

[@ekaterinavalinakova2643]

Holograms: the correct way to do a presentation.

[@smarkymonbon8110]

Love how he joked that "the richest of the rich are contemplating being tourists to the moon" and here we are in 2021 seeing exactly that.

[@WMStream]

Well that was incredible.

[@foxdash]

Looking forward to watching this

[@leeyandrogyny5362]

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS HOLOGRAMS!

[@user-ks7bq8uc7i]

Very nicely explained

[@mathieuleader8601]

very informative

[@wetkitchen]

@ jean Bilheux the 3D graphics was projected by musion.co.uk and the graphics by prime focus.

[@danhalberstein4067]

I think so many of us have a pet view of the future that we've forgotten how hard it is to discuss the present. I see a great number of comments to the effect that Rosling was terrible because he did not focus on global warming (or if you prefer, climate change,) or some other concern. I see others very angry at Rosling evidently because he counsels us not to panic. I think I have seen some who are angry with him because part of his presentation is about gaps in income/wealth. What Rosling does is make data interesting. None of these presentations will make you happy because of your preconceived hobby horse. He isn't trying to pin down when the earth reaches its carrying capacity, although a lot of very committed folks have been screaming for some time that we're past it. He isn't trying to justify that the rich should get richer and the poor poorer. If anything, he wants the world to continue what progress it has made, into relative good health and wealth. The truth is, we have made progress using yardsticks such as life expectancy and available resource, for most of the world. As Michio Kaku often says, a middle class person in the developed world today can buy a breakfast that the King of England could not arrange 100 years ago. Now, if you are invested in hair-on-fire doomsaying, you'll hate Rosling. If you are invested in "we don't have to change anything" stubborn ignorance, you won't like him either. He's not about right or left, he's about the data. He won't pretend that enormous gaps are necessary and desirable, and he won't pretend that it's already too late for any change to matter... or some other such anti-battle-cry. He just wants you to get what the reality is right now and what it implies for our future, from what I can tell. Keep googling Rosling for some of the best visualizations ever done (well, so far.) We won't see any more from him, I'm afraid; he died in 2017. But his son Ola carries on similar work.

[@kieranmp4143]

Dan Halberstein I agree with you totally. It’s so sad that Hans Rosling has passed because he was one of the few people out there who didn’t feel the need to play anything up or down to fit a preconceived idea. We need more people to present facts followed by interpretation rather than interpretation with selected evidence.

[@BCentre2011]

impressive

[@olusinajoyce6379]

thank you, i have never been this educated about the world and people in it!

[@marcopolo3001]

Even though I am constantly educating myself, this was also a very good way of putting things into perspective.

[@osewee]

Like the technology used in presenting...

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

Love Hans' talks :D When is it on?

[@cjknotty]

This is like a TED talk.

[@arqweryon]

It's a pitty we don't have BBC 2 here in brazil :(

[@TheDisproof]

Over 100 national science academies agree we are overpopulated, Hans Rosling makes the error of thinking that a current slowing of population growth means we are not overpopulated at 7 billion already. the fact we have to use non renewable resources at all means we are overpopulated and unsustainable.

[@memoweb01]

+TheDisproof And the 7 milliard is just an invented number. There are numerous countries where there haven´t been a census in decades. There are many places where the persons that make them never go. It is just an hypotetical number made by over-optimistic government employes who don´t want population "to panic" when confronted with the harsh reality. They just blindly BELIEVE that somehow everything will be allright if they close their eyes.

[@lepetitchat123]

If anything, I think population numbers are underestimated. Most countries with large populations are corrupt dictatorships and I don't trust their data AT ALL. And this Rosling guy seems so excited by all the fake data lol.

[@JJFrostMusic]

You just want a mass genocide you maniac

[@kazpeak]

@BBCiPlayer will this episode of The World Don't Panic - The Truth About Population be up again soon? gutted to have missed the whole thing.

[@bidochon2009]

Does anybody know where I can get more information about this 3D graphics display ? Thanks

[@ivancicin-sain1069]

The fact is that the global population is forecast to reach about 11 billion by 2100. A message saying 'Don't Panic' makes us complacent. We need to be CONCERNED about the growing number of people, because we are not feeding all of them NOW, let alone feeding 30% more in the future.

[@TheInsaiyan]

He literally telling you that statistics say that it wont reach 11 billion. And predictions have been so far very correct over the past 60 years.

[@JacobKind]

I'M PANICKING!

[@blan1610]

whooops panic stations people!!!

[@memoweb01]

In this video there is no talk at all about nature, about forests, jungles, plants and animals that will become extinct. Also there is not talk about desertification, sea level rise, the fact that massive migration is filling the gap (therefore Europe is NOT depopulating!), war for natural resources (oil, gas, fresh water, arable land), the fact that because of the advance of genetic science we will live hundreds of years in the near future, population will not decline even if persons have an average of 1 or less children, life expectancy will simply sky rocket. Also there is no mention at all about the advances in artificial intelligence and robotics (search for videos of Boston Dynamics), in the near future machines will do the job that millards of persons do now, there will be massive unemployment, if population would be small, machines could do all and we would live in a paradise but instead of that we will have milliards of persons whose work will not be recquired anymore (or they will be paid much much less) but they will still have to eat, support their families, etc. This video also gives the false impression that the gap between rich and poor is shrinking but it is quite the opposite, the difference between the salaries of the highest executives and the rest of employees is widening, also since every human has the same value than any other person it doesn´t mean that because there are less % of the total under certain conditions we are better now, believe it or not, there are more persons living as slaves today than in ancient times, even if they may be a smaller percentage they are millions and millions, each one of them has the same rights as you and me!

[@MKeliminator]

+Guillermo López excuse me, but are you kidding me? I only just got to this video from a previous video from the same author - and I can't understand why _this_ particular video has anything to do with what you are describing/listing here. From my perspective this video simply visualizes the differences in economy in a good way (as in; easy to understand.)

[@lepetitchat123]

How can you just look at wealth and GDP without looking at other factors? Looking at data without context is self-defeating and pointless

[@gurkancelikkol9701]

Excellent presentation. Most probably the best I've ever seen. As an MD and scientist I've seen a lot of presentations but none like this. You should teach statistics from a Mooc such as EdX, coursera etc. Thank you very much.

[@memoweb01]

+Gürkan Çelikkol If you are interested in numbers and want to see something more realistic (and not so over-optimistic) search for the video called: Arithmetic, Population and Energy

[@lepetitchat123]

If he teaches statistics I will quit the course. I dot want a deluded fool to be my teacher

[@reyisaguirre4477]

That's CAPITALISM

[@benkai09]

that only explains a small chunk.... you have to think the top 1% earn several thousands+ a day

[@niallro]

some are so rich they want to become space tourists, Mmm bob geldof springs to mind.

[@Dimbleby]

What the whole episode here Don't Panic - The Truth About Population

[@kazpeak]

Link down now - if you find again, please let me(us) know.

[@MELISSA3536]

Karyn Peacocke www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/

[@wethepeople1776]

He had to make the Hologram a ladder/steps not a straight line...

[@dubbud74]

you mean he left a small chunk out as in those that earn thousands a week? He did'nt. You must not have bothered watching the entire video. Or else you misunderstood

[@psychemedia]

It's Pepper's ghost reinvented for the digital age, developed by a company called Musion: musion dot co dot uk

[@badpanda84]

' *So take the money from the top 0.1% and redistribute it. Seems simple enough* But the problem is that the top 0.1% are so use to living that lifestyle.. If all the income was evenly disturbed ( so everyone had $10 a day) While the people on $1 would be happy.. all the people on $100 a day would riot. Imagine what would happen if suddenly you income fell from $100 a day to just $10 a day

[@annawinkel4269]

badpanda84 isn't that basically the veeeery simplified original idea of communism?

[@rhinosoul684]

And how many of the other billions do those top billion employ, so that they can get to the point of buying a car?

[@mrdeacon79]

Your missing the point, only a very small portion of the top billion would be able to afford to employ anyone, $100 a day is only 36k a year, you aren't going to employ many people with that. That's how large the discrepancy between the very rich and very poor is, what we consider poor isn't even close

[@friktermind]

A kindergarten-level explanation. What is this?

[@Khannea]

So take the money from the top 0.1% and redistribute it. Seems simple enough.