Moving this video to Seric's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg dammit....this is interesting.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Seric.

Brilliant talk. Hans Rosling is always entertaining.

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Seric.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by geo321.

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The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 16:05 - length declared by radx.

I love this man. He combines happiness with hard numbers. He single-handedly makes me feel better about the future of this planet every single time.

Can't believe it took two begs and a quality to sift this .______.

Stirring stuff. It's so good to know that these things can and do get better. We're so used to hearing about missed targets and how the world is going to rack and ruin. Positive news like this is great, it's the best reason to try harder. Great sift.

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Stirring stuff. It's so good to know that these things can and do get better. We're so used to hearing about missed targets and how the world is going to rack and ruin. Positive news like this is great, it's the best reason to try harder. Great sift.


I have learned, that people have absolutely no perspective AT ALL. Everyone all says something like "oh.. back when I was a kid things were a lot better". People of my age say it. the generation before does, and the generation before, ad nauseam.

This sort of analysis shows that things have been getting a lot better for at least the last 150 years all over the world.