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    World Population Image

    Two colours, red and grey, each representing half the world's total population. Quite the reminder!



    Can anyone confirm if this the best way to fit half the world's population into the smallest area? Is it possible to have an even smaller area provide that 3.7 Billion figure?
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    Re: World Population Image

    Compress out the space between atoms and fit everyone into a sugar cube?

    I think the original image covers densest areas already so doubtful it could be altered.

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    Re: World Population Image

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
    Compress out the space between atoms and fit everyone into a sugar cube?
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    Re: World Population Image

    Highly recommend this show: -

    Don't Panic - World Population

    He did one last week on the BBC about World Poverty that was also very good.

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    Re: World Population Image

    I dunno, I think that Prof Rosling skipped over some important bits of data. Namely around environment and that getting people to give up something they currently have is a very difficult challenge. He suggests that there is no moral argument that the richer developed nations who have a very high pollution per capita rate should prevent others who have a lower standard of life from polluting so. The issue is that people don't really behave morally on mass, history isn't full of examples of people willingly giving up what they have. Hell you could even argue the philosophical point that it's better to support a few too a good standard than more to a lower.

    I feel he glosses over the fact that developing countries will have massive environmental impacts. He also omits the fact that the most developed have been reducing certain footprints whilst the inter-quartile ranges have been increasing them. This is especially poignant considering his conclusion.
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    Re: World Population Image

    And, that red area is pretty rich wealth-wise.

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    Re: World Population Image

    It would be more accurate to chart the correlation between population density vs resource density. For example the large swathes of Russia which are not suitable for human habitation.

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    Re: World Population Image

    Part of that red area is going through the same phase as we are in the US - the population is slowly going backwards, which is a good thing (I speak of both China and Japan).

    Yes, there's a LOT of people there, but for the most part (if one excludes parts of India and Bangladesh) there's very little 'hunger'. Yes, there's what we in the west would call poverty, but that's an economic term that really doesn't meet the proper definition there - not a lot of money, but plenty (or at least enough) food. In addition, the SE Asians seem to be a little more capable in the population control department. At one point, I had a software contract with a prophylactic (that's condom - saving some the time of Googling it) company that dealt almost exclusively in SE Asia. The low end initial sales, at wholesale, was in the hundreds of millions. After 90 days, sales were in the 10's of billions. That's a lot of latex, folks. India. not so much. Never more than 300 million/quarter. Don't know if it's religious, or cultural, or ignorance... or all of the above. But India's population is on the rise, and China and Japan are on the decline.

    I fully expect the map to change over Europe sooner rather than later (rather artificially, with a big red spot centered around Berlin), and I guess Africa won't be getting any more gray than it is, even though that population is on the decline, for multiple reasons.

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    Re: World Population Image

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    And, that red area is pretty rich wealth-wise.
    For the top 2%, anyway....

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    Re: World Population Image

    Quote Originally Posted by GuidoLS View Post
    For the top 2%, anyway....
    I agree that they are heavily populated but the countries are definitely rich. Look at India, for example. It ranks 4th , whereas we rank 10!

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    Re: World Population Image

    Yet don't we give them money every year
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    Re: World Population Image

    Quote Originally Posted by Gerrard View Post
    Highly recommend this show: -

    Don't Panic - World Population

    He did one last week on the BBC about World Poverty that was also very good.
    Very interesting, thank you Gerrard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    I agree that they are heavily populated but the countries are definitely rich. Look at India, for example. It ranks 4th , whereas we rank 10!
    According to Business Insider, India isn't even in the top 23, let alone #4 (Source). As far as the colloquial "WE" goes, I'm in the US, and we're supposedly ranked #7 per capita, whereas the UK is currently at 23. The only countries from the red area that seem to be on the list are -

    3) Singapore
    6) Hong Kong
    17) Taiwan
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    22) Japan.

    For that matter, whoever you got #4 for India must have been on some good hallucinogens... according to the same chart as above, India ranks at 130th in the world... Source. That's NOT a small or even slight disparity... that's someone drinking water and someone else plastered on tequila and absinthe...

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    Re: World Population Image

    It would be better if they used an undistorted map of the world:

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...s-africa-wrong

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