Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling

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  tokrakree
  December 31st, 2025
  

  

  Thanks for sharing

  Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling
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  jeffrey2
  January 1st, 2026
  

  I’me not keen on the audiobook version, I found the narration sssslllllloooooowwwwww. (Blame my reading speed). But it interested me enough to get hold of an epub version, and I can thoroughly recommend the book

  Thanks accipiterguy for making me aware of its existence.

  Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling
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  privateero
  January 2nd, 2026
  

  just play at 1.25 speed on your player. you must be a crapple user to not know this simple fix.

  Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling
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  apnea
  January 6th, 2026
  

  Oh hell ya everything is awesome and I can tell by all the homeless fentanyl addicts and closed down and boarded up business that everything is awesome according to some Eurotard who has been dead for a decades.
  Hans Rosling was an optimism pimp - selling hope, the easiest sell in history - tell the plebs what they want to hear. His company charged $$$$$ for every talk/speech and twisted data presentation. Has was great at bullshitting with data. I do not have one family member or friend who thinks the world is getting better. Only rich over privileged assholes think that.

  The humans will not make it out of this century - hell climate change alone will do it, only it is not alone, it’s got plenty of other existential threats to keep it company.
  ~~~

  *Why collapse is inevitable*

  Part 1: The nature and nurture of terminal overshoot

  William E Rees
  Dec 16, 2025

  Limits to Growth (‘Standard Run’): Collapse in this century — imprecise but accurate

  I might as well come right out and say it: Humans are wrecking their home planet, geo-politics is boiling over, civil unrest is palpable and human nature is at the heart of it all. Modern techno-industrial (MTI) society has self-organized for ignominious collapse in this century and there is nothing much we can do about it.

  It’s complicated, but the ‘human nature’ part is not all that hard to comprehend (unless you are a creationist).

  Let’s start with some basics:

  Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution (Dobzhansky 1973).

  Fact: H. sapiens, like millions of other species, has evolved by Darwinian natural selection. It follows that nothing in human affairs makes (complete) sense except in light of evolution. Nudged by competition for the material necessities of life,[1] natural selection endowed us with at least three characteristics relevant to our present socio-ecological predicament: 1) humans invade and populate all accessible favourable habitats; 2) human populations use up all available resources; 3) under favourable conditions, human populations are capable of exponential growth. It’s worth noting in passing that those millions of other species—including competing species with ecologically similar requirements—share these same qualities. It just so happens that, by playing on manipulative intelligence, natural selection has made us orders of magnitude better at expressing them than are more ecologically ‘normal’ species.

  The proof is irrefutable: humans have colonized every continent and sizable island on the planet—no other vertebrate species’ natural geographic range comes close to that of H. sapiens; humans have an embarrassing record of over-exploiting—often to the point of extinction—other species that we consider edible or that we can ‘harvest’ for economically valuable body parts from soft warm fur to hard cold ivory; industrial humans have burned through prodigious quantities of fossil fuels (we are close to peak petroleum production with no signs of backing off as the green new deal is implodes) and the world is running up against supply bottlenecks of crucial metals/minerals such as copper and rare earths. In short, humans are scraping the sides and bottom of our earthly barrel. In the process we have become the dominant geological force changing the face of the planet and are extinguishing much non-human life.

  We also win a special prize on the sheer numbers front. Normally, if a population a of K-strategic (or ‘slow life-history’) species like humans becomes excessive, its exponential growth imperative (positive feedback) is held in check by increasing disease, food and resource shortages, competition for space, higher predation rates, etc. (negative feedback). Thus, suspended between fluctuating push and pull, K-populations tend to hover in dynamic equilibrium near the average carrying capacities of their habitats. This was Malthus’ crucial insight.

  It is also how local human populations behaved for most of anatomically modern H. sapiens’ 300,000-year evolutionary history. Things changed dramatically with the adoption of agriculture ten millennia ago; food surpluses enabled large permanent settlements and the emergence of ‘civilization’, but it is really post-enlightenment MTI peoples who have (if only temporarily) broken the rules that maintained equilibrium.

  The industrial/scientific revolution spawned technologies, particularly improvements in public sanitation and disease control, that greatly reduced death rates while fossil fuels alleviated food and resource shortages. With the suppression of negative factors, positive feedback prevailed; between the early 1800s and 2023, the human population exploded from one to eight billion. Meanwhile, what we now call ‘neoliberal economics’ began taking form in the late 1800s. In just two centuries, the human population grew eight times larger than the maximum attained over the previous 3000 centuries[2] and the world economy grew 100-fold in real terms! Within a few decades, small villages became towns and well-placed towns morphed into major industrial cities. By 2025, 80% of humanity was effectively urbanized, a transformation catalyzed not only by population growth, but also the migration of millions from rural to urban areas.[3] There are now about 80 cities in the world with populations in excess of five million—each has more people than existed on the entire planet at the dawn of agriculture 10,000 years ago.

  more

  https://reeswilliame.substack.com/p/why-collapse-is-inevitable

  Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling
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  Tubular8233
  January 29th, 2026
  

  Just had to comment to say that Apneas response made me chuckle.

  Factfulness - Hans Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund,Ola Rosling

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