[Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population (World Population Documentary) – Real Stories] (Viewer #20,894)
Yeah, I know, it’s an hour. TL;DW
But dip a toe in… maybe bounce around it a little. The guy’s like the inverse of Al Gore, claiming the world is actually getting better, and backing it up with numbers.
I guarantee it’s worth a peep.
Also, less annoying to watch than any Star Wars movie made after 1980.
“. . . less annoying to watch than any Star Wars movie made after 1980.”
“So, you have a video for me to watch?”
“Yes, sir, I do.”
Dammit, I typed my email address wrong again.
In previous incarnations, IMAO remmbered my email address and user name from one posting to the next. Doesn’t seem to, nowadays. You changes get offa my lawn.
I had an hour to invest, and I trusted (wisely) Harvey’s guarantee. I am glad I watched it.
Really good statistician stuff with respect to easing anyone’s worries about world overpopulation.
Likeable presenter.
He’s the kind of guy you wish you had as a teacher in school, and has the kind of presentation (graphics) you also wish your teacher had had.
The last five minutes feature Global Warming stuff that preaches how Global Warming is an acknowledged problem. It presents, unclhallenged, the assumptions that (a) Global Warming is a problem, and (b) CO2 emissions are the underlying cause of Global Warming — neither of which are supported. What about water vapor? Will that go away if industrialized countries stop being industrialized?
The human-interest intermissions left me cold because I no longer trust anyone’s reporting, frankly. I don’t appreciate being manipulated. Nor those who try to do it.
“Meet Ngumbi. He’s a poor farmer, merely trying to put food on his family’s table.”
Really?
Tell me how Ngumbi spends his day.
And while you’re at it, tell me how he spends his wages.
But don’t just show me him whacking yams in a field for three seconds, and expect me to support whatever social program you’re selling. He could be pissing his money away on prostitutes and drink for all I know.
I don’t give a crap about him. it’s your job to make me. A slick ad campaign doesn’t do it.
So, overall, i’d give the video 7.5 out of 10.
Personally, I kinda like the story where a simple thing like a bicycle maks his life exponentially better. Warms the cockles of my Horatio Alger heart.
About 3000 years ago Israeli King Solomon observed that government mismanagement was a primary cause of starvation. Funny how some things never change.