Hans Rosling is a Professor of International Health, from Sweeden. He is also founder of Gapminder Foundation.
In the following talk in Ted he presents his idea about population growth and asks: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth?
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html
Following our discussion on food crisis. We argued about food supplies, prices, choices, and politicians. Here is an article about food speculations, where coorporations and banks put people on hunger when there is enough food to feed humanity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/jan/23/food-speculation-banks-hunger-poverty
Something we talked about on the last seminar when discussing human rights.
