This man inspires me. He has inspired me to visit Africa, which I have done twice now at the age of 20. He has inspired me to study hard. He has inspired me to not be afraid of speaking in front of people. He will inspire me to become a doctor and work for the unprivileged. He is one of few heroes in my life, although I have never met him. Hans Rosling: tack!
The secret is that we don't each need our own washing machine. If there is a small laundromat for every thirty or forty households we can take all of our household washing down and get it done in three hours, wash, dry, folded. Only one washing machine is needed for every three or four houses. When you have your own washing machine doing the laundry can take all day or time from every day.
Professor Rosling is an ecstatic raving lunatic that by fantastic oratories and revelations document truth just as easy and convincing as the most fundametalistic believers of totally different categories.
Professeur Rosling est un maniaque sautant extatique qui, avec des oratorienne et révélations documentant la vérité aussi facilement et convaincante que des fidèles fondamentalistes des catégories toutes différentes.
@mariusvanc you are dirty! you dont need shampoo okay dont use any... they understand what they are clapping for... they are clapping because poor women got a chance to expand their mind instead of mindless hand washing.
i love presentations by Hans Rosling...he always comes prepared with real data and always is concerned about the future....plus he's pretty entertaining :D
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$80 a day is almost 30 000 a year, per person. I'm quite sure that there is a lot less then 1 billion people who have that much income. Is he then counting the per capita GDP? I still don't think it adds up, though.
@8080256256 There's always hidden spending that you don't see being spent. You pay some taxes and your government invests it (hopefully). They may profit on this and spend it on social or whatever other programs which in the end you basically paid for. That might be where the gap comes from. But then again his presentation is considering averages. I have no problem imagining 30k for 1 billion being correct. US average wage is 51k, Canada (where I live) is 41k. Most of Europe is over 30k...
@Nardypants I took some stats in school averages are meaningless especially when some are earning billions a year. There is still poverty in America. And probably everywhere.
Last line is most telling. Everyone thinks technology is the solution, but technology is cheap and still many people do not have it. He needs to add:
Thank you free market. Thank you property rights, Thank you individual liberty, Thank you freedom to trade and freedom of conscious. Thank you democracy.
@opera4only Look at the middle east now. Egypt, Libya, Syria etc. Look at the industrialization. Technology lead to democracies forming. Not the other way around.
"Magic" washing machine? I really wish people would stop conflating science and technology with magic hocus-pocus talk. No wonder creationism is creeping back into our schools.
@vlakieste It was like magic to him and his grandmother when they first got it over half a century ago because it was like nothing they had ever seen before. Give him a break. Of course he doesn't really think it's magic.
Let me correct you; Self-righteous, shallow, white leftist green scum having the nerve to question where the third world gets their energy or why they aren't driving priuse
hans youve made errors in your data. these past couple of years theres been a boom in cheap disposable like washing machines that cost around 50 dollars. these washing machines in the 3rd world have been leading the way. in making your projections accelerate.
@timidgothica Agreed. Self-righteous, shallow, white people having the nerve to question where the third world gets their energy or why they aren't driving priuses.
there simply isn't enough energy for all those "jumps" he shows at 6:30.
it will be the other way around. the "air people" will become "light bulb people" and so on. unless there is a ultra amazing break through in renewable energy tech.
I'm sure the energy already exists, but oil lobbyist will suck up all the Earth's blood before alowing an alternative energy to kick in. By them...guess what???Too late.
@TzunSu fusion or fission? I'm sure the wealthy nations will try to install the alternatives before its too late but the question remains open, do we have enough time and energy to build that new infrastructure? To build the "new house" before the old one collapses?
@drorjs Both fusion and fission are possible energy sources for the future, not long ago the first fusion experiment that actually yielded more energy then was put in was done. There are lots of problems to overcome though, so i dont expect the first production plant to be built before atleast 20 years goes by. Improved fission can last far longer then that.
@Zasphalahim being poor or rich is all about perception. 100 years from now when the poorest will have access to things unattainable by the richest people today, there is still going to inequality and even a larger perceptual gap between the rich and the poor. I didn't say anything about blinding the poor, nor did i say anything about punishing the rich.
Never see from his perspective until now.... Those who have washing machines do not want others to have washing machines.. The washing machine is just a metaphor...We who have it all are selfish indeed..
People don't look at the economics of it. Do you know why we 1 seventh of the world are rich? because the other 6/7 are poor. Think about if, if everyone in the rest of the world had the same GDP as your country, or even half of your countries, thats money out of your pocket and into theres.
That's completely wrong. When other economies grow it doesn't make us poorer. Matter of fact when developing countries get richer it increase the wealth of the rich countries. That's because you now have more people with the wealth to purchase the goods and services that rich countries produce.
@captainpisshard what are you gonna do kill 3 to 4 billion people and a problems will be solved... we have to learn to adapt because the population is gonna keep growing.
'Thank you power stations and thank tou chemical industry that gave us time to read book' hahaha Hans 'da Man' Rosling owning every stupid environmentalist out there.
I'm willing to bet that the washing machine uses water and energy more efficiently than doing it by hand. Dish washers are more efficient in this respect.
When the woman's life improves in quality, real quality, not cosmetics and fashion, that society, culture or country progresses much faster than before. This trend is seen everywhere and many times over in world history. Just saying.
The biggest issue in this world is not energy consumption per se, but overpopulation and the lack of family planning. This is the source of most misery and exploitation today too.
You know what this tells me. The top humans have built a great civilization over 1000's of years, and we should be happy we have this civilization and try to bring it to the others in the world.
TED has really jumped the shark lately. Poor people could wash their clothes if they had laundromats. It's not rocket science. Have a communal set of washing machines that are used according to scheduled appointments. Everyone pays for them in a community payment plan and the interest is government subsidized. And theoretically they could be peddle powered by one or two people. In tandem with solar panels it shouldn't be difficult.
@DeimosSaturn "Have a communal set of washing machines that are used according to scheduled appointments. Everyone pays for them in a community payment plan"
Why not just give them money, and let them decide how to spend it?
@elpresidio Problem is that sun and wind cannot provide the baseload, that is the minimum amount of energy you need in order to maintain civilization. They are diffuse and intermittent. And geothermal and water are based on geography. I am a big supporter of nuclear power and believe it is very misunderstood. I've spent the last two years making a feature film on the subject, which I have uploaded to YouTube and arranged on a playlist.
Hehe.. I have to show this video to those people wearing knitted hats and brown fleecejackets who care so so much about the enviroment.
I think the solution lies in technology, not in humans themselves. Most people wont drive less, use less electricity and stop using their washing machines! We all want more, more, more when given the chance! And Hans Rosling makes me proud and grateful(to my parents genes) for being randomly born into Scandinavia :)
The reason for poverty in the world is uncaring governments. Those billions of folks in the poorest parts of the world are the victims of corruption and exploitation by their own governments. Unfortunately, the false claims of anthropogenic climate change will work to slow the emergence of these poorest people from that awful state. The uncaring so called "environmentalists" have no qualms about the millions that will have to suffer and die for the sake of their vision of the world.
@georges255 "the reason for poverty in the world is uncaring governments"
It is a truth that the "down & out" are KEPT... down & out, but not only by governments. A person's own family will reject the least among them. Poverty carries with it too many badges... and we always know just who that person is, where they came from and the horrible things they sometimes have to do to survive. Poverty is like a disease that no person wants to be with or near. In other words, it is abandonment.
Oh, Hans, You rule. It's too bad that your enthusiasm for industrialization is at every turn attacked by shit-sucking collectivists wearing the cowl of environmentalism. Thanks to those inveterate pricks, the most effective washing machines have been replaced by less effective and more expensive models. First they killed the Western toilet and the combustion engine; then took aim at the washer. Go to wall street journal's website and search _How Washington Ruined Your Washing Machine_
You wrote a book. I'm not reading all your insane ramblings. And as for the name, I sincerely apologize to Panpiper. First time every commenting on YouTube.
As for InferiorDiety, those "tyrannical" rulers of the Western Empires fight for free speech. That gives every a-hole like you the right to spew whatever wasted diatribe you desire. You would like to take away that free speech... to "educate" everyone. They are already educated. Just don't agree with you.
Panpiper, listen to yourself. You are the definition of tyranny. Slaughter or educate all those who disagree with you until they agree with you? What do you want? Re-education camps? To kill more people than all of WWII like Stalin or Mao did?
@rsigman34 It is SuperiorDeity who has proudly stated his willingness, even eagerness, to hold the gun so as to slaughter all those who disagree with him, not me. I am the one who asserts that the violence of state solutions is evil, I am the one who wants to end that kind of violence. I want voluntarism, free people making free decisions. SuperiorDeity wants to force everyone into compliance with 'his' desires and murder those who resist.
@Panpiper First time posting on YouTube, thought @Panpiper was his name. If you read my reply to his reply, I apologize for confusing you with a person like him. I mean really... Anyone with a name like SuperiorDeity has to be a bloated, egotistical imbecile. Capitalism isn't even the problem... it's the people within society (regardless of economical or even political system) that make or break it. Communism works on paper, but presumes people to be good. Not true for many.
@rsigman34 I have made that mistake myself early in my YouTube years. I did not see your corrective post until after I made mine. Just as well, nothing wrong with having two posts distancing me from that vitriol spewing, homicidal luddite.
@Farbar1955 The climate is always changing. In that sense, climate change is definitely real. The glaciers have been receding now for hundreds of years (long before human agency could be responsible), so the planet is definitely warming. The question of course is to what degree human action is responsible for current warming, and in 'that' question, there is much room for legitimate, scientific disagreement.
I enjoy Hans' videos, but I don't like how he projects current values and methodologies into the future. We can choose to radically redesign society today if we so choose, but people at TED rarely discuss that option.
@WarmWeatherGuy Overpopulation is relative to how resource and space efficient infrastructure is. The issue should not be lowering the number of people, it should be creating an infrastructure that sustains itself and also lets the rest of the planet do its thing.
@VitriolicAC Search YouTube for "The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See" and listen to Professor Bartlett explain how we WILL have zero population growth.
/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
The only way for everyone to have a washing machine it to have fewer people. Professor Bartlett explains that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. I suspect that if you sit through his video you will realize something new.
Please post more true ideas like this and less of people just talking about events. I can see that on so many other sites and read it in so many other sources.
How was this even worth a presentation? Its not as if these people aren't going to know most of this information already.
He didn't present a developed solution to the problem , he just pointed out a problem and the difference between MEDCs AND LEDCs which everyone already basically knows! Not even worth an applause.
@Koolkattj But he's presenting a new perspective on this issue. And he also gave different data than what is usually seen.
Want a solution? We should send washing machines to developing countries so they can spend their time doing better things for themselves like learn or go to school.
I feel like this was a brilliant presentation, to be honest. I'm not sure why you are so against it, but to each their own.
@matics19 Sending washing machines wouldn't be a solution, it would be another problem. Since 2 billion of the people live under the $2 dollar mark (facts from his presentation), they don't have electricity to use and solar power wouldn't create enough power anyway if you tried that measure.
Its just the fact, he's just pointing out differences between LEDCs and MEDCs, no problem solving. It's basically like rewarding him for distinguishing between black and white, so his eyes work, wippty doo!
@Koolkattj Solar can provide enough power if u increase the time it takes to wash.. Since you don't need power on demand u can leave out the batteries and just have it run when the sun is shinning. It would probably take 3 hours to wash but it's better than doing it by hand. But the price is too high unless you subsidize it..
@ddnguyen278 One problem though, the materials needed to make solar cells are limited. Very limited, we would never have enough solar cells to make a meaningful impact.
@sogghartha Plants seem to do fine with their solar cells made from carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen.. It's not the limit of the materials but the limits of or knowledge. It could be argued all our oil, coal, gas and bio-mass comes from these same solar collectors which fuel the entire food chain of life on Earth, well except the vent creatures.. Cheap solar cells made from amorphorous silicon (sand) though low in efficiency can run the device just fine, and you'll never run out of sand..
@Koolkattj But he's pointing out the definitions/characteristics of those groups of people as examples to demonstrate his overall idea that a) technology like the washing machine makes lives easier so people can focus on self-betterment and productive work, and b) that due to our continued desire to have more "laundry machines" we will reach our energy limit under our current systems, and need to develop new sources of clean energy.
He communicated his ideas, not his solutions. That is TED.
@Koolkattj Also, my "solution" was more of a joke, really. Don't take it seriously lol. Obviously it's not really the message behind the talk, or really any decent solution at all.
@Koolkattj I disagree. He pointed out how selfishly inclined the rich are, among emphasizing what can be achieved and where our values should be most stressed. Like racism, people know about it, but it seems that, unfortunately some things must be spelled out, repeatedly, stressing initiative and it's potential benefits... To prove it, I bet you think about this video more than once again ;)
I think it was a passionate, elegant presentation and therefore a joy to watch.
@SuperiorDeity And who is going to craft such a plan? Who is going to 'force' it upon the whole world? You perhaps (and what army)? I am sure the world would have no problem having someone who cavalierly talks about 'killing off' people till the world reaches a population 'you' are happy with., planning a world war of conquest so they can be genocided upon and then be forced at gun point to live in your supposed utopia.
This man inspires me. He has inspired me to visit Africa, which I have done twice now at the age of 20. He has inspired me to study hard. He has inspired me to not be afraid of speaking in front of people. He will inspire me to become a doctor and work for the unprivileged. He is one of few heroes in my life, although I have never met him. Hans Rosling: tack!
xGotheDistancex 2 weeks ago 3
I love my Whirlpool, old-school top loader. Word up.
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TAKE THAT GREEN PEOPLE!! ;)
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This is a great eye opener to the airline people, it may promote more efforts for green energy and equal access....
Veravdg 1 month ago
The secret is that we don't each need our own washing machine. If there is a small laundromat for every thirty or forty households we can take all of our household washing down and get it done in three hours, wash, dry, folded. Only one washing machine is needed for every three or four houses. When you have your own washing machine doing the laundry can take all day or time from every day.
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@Pangolinx1
"If there is a small laundromat for every thirty or forty households we can take all of our household washing down"
Chances are, if you have your own washing machine, you'll pay less than if you used the Laundermat, who price their use at a profit + cost.
And that's assuming you didn't have to drive there, and waste money on gas.
It's a trade off, more time, but less money, or less time, but more money, both are legitimate choices.
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Professor Rosling is an ecstatic raving lunatic that by fantastic oratories and revelations document truth just as easy and convincing as the most fundametalistic believers of totally different categories.
flyvefisken 1 month ago
Professeur Rosling est un maniaque sautant extatique qui, avec des oratorienne et révélations documentant la vérité aussi facilement et convaincante que des fidèles fondamentalistes des catégories toutes différentes.
flyvefisken 1 month ago
why can't I have a professor like this guy?
Larriisama 1 month ago
This is so refreshing and awesome that it almost made me shed a tear
mistahtut 1 month ago
For a TEDtalk, this has surprisingly candid criticism of the Greenheads.
MrCropper 2 months ago
Anthropogenic global warming is a joke. But this guy is right that the washing machine has done much to better our lives.
dlstb 2 months ago
The washing machine has done more for women than any feminist scholar or activist ever could. Thank you washing machine.
An0nEeMouse 2 months ago 14
I'm eating this up. It's such great information. I want this guy to be my professor. o.o
xIAiChanIx 2 months ago
Using energy doesnt affect climate change, but i agree we need to find alternative forms of energy before the fossil fules run out.
mBrooks95 3 months ago
You don't need shampoo. People got along without soaping their hair for hundreds of years just fine.
Love the TEDsters clapping confusedly at the end... clap clap clap hey wait, what are we clapping for... petrochemical industry? ehh? clap clap clap
mariusvanc 3 months ago
@mariusvanc you are dirty! you dont need shampoo okay dont use any... they understand what they are clapping for... they are clapping because poor women got a chance to expand their mind instead of mindless hand washing.
fanglethorpe 2 months ago 2
washing machine,,,hm there are people without shampoo...
andreeaweed 3 months ago
Go Dilma we root for miss president. Go Brazil
denilsonufv 5 months ago
This guy is so passionate...love it!
Bfavrestarr415 6 months ago 25
i love presentations by Hans Rosling...he always comes prepared with real data and always is concerned about the future....plus he's pretty entertaining :D
Mat2DaW 7 months ago 3
I think this is the best ted talk ever
frankmiller3oo 7 months ago 2
Hans Rosling with female audience? hm..
MultiRationale 7 months ago
Svengelska ftw
missionbells 7 months ago 8
Obama should watch this. #atmfacts
mtlgooner 8 months ago 5
Why is Rebecca Black in the recommended videos?
MrCexelby 8 months ago
Ya fully man. My grandmother washed in a tub when we first moved to California. I would help. Totally get that.
shampoovta 8 months ago
Grad student in the washing machine....
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wwwtotalitaerde 8 months ago
This dude is so cool.
soulmman 8 months ago
very silly
yaw365 9 months ago
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amt253 9 months ago
$80 a day is almost 30 000 a year, per person. I'm quite sure that there is a lot less then 1 billion people who have that much income. Is he then counting the per capita GDP? I still don't think it adds up, though.
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Nardypants 8 months ago
@8080256256 There's always hidden spending that you don't see being spent. You pay some taxes and your government invests it (hopefully). They may profit on this and spend it on social or whatever other programs which in the end you basically paid for. That might be where the gap comes from. But then again his presentation is considering averages. I have no problem imagining 30k for 1 billion being correct. US average wage is 51k, Canada (where I live) is 41k. Most of Europe is over 30k...
Nardypants 8 months ago
@Nardypants I took some stats in school averages are meaningless especially when some are earning billions a year. There is still poverty in America. And probably everywhere.
Gamesman001 7 months ago
Hans is the man.
TheOverhuman 9 months ago 2
Who came up with this fitst wasing machin talk Ha-Joon Chang or Hans Rolsing
birhan2006 9 months ago
WHATTHEFUCKDOES REBECCA BLACK HAVE TO DO WITH HANS ROSLING'S PRESENTATION!?!?!
Gameboob 10 months ago 8
The oil giants will never allow this to happen.
coolcat3232 10 months ago
Last line is most telling. Everyone thinks technology is the solution, but technology is cheap and still many people do not have it. He needs to add:
Thank you free market. Thank you property rights, Thank you individual liberty, Thank you freedom to trade and freedom of conscious. Thank you democracy.
opera4only 10 months ago 3
@opera4only Technology leads to democracy, not the other way around.
jockedahl123 8 months ago
@jockedahl123 Isn't it pretty to think so?
opera4only 8 months ago
@opera4only Look at the middle east now. Egypt, Libya, Syria etc. Look at the industrialization. Technology lead to democracies forming. Not the other way around.
jockedahl123 8 months ago
@jockedahl123 Which is why most dictators and prophets try to control or limit it.
Gamesman001 7 months ago
21 people don't have a washing machine...
Mikeymike411 10 months ago
fantasitc, I believe we need washing machine, but I do not think we need the dryer as bad as wash machine.
aguegu314 10 months ago
I love this guy!
evageline01 10 months ago
"Magic" washing machine? I really wish people would stop conflating science and technology with magic hocus-pocus talk. No wonder creationism is creeping back into our schools.
vlakieste 11 months ago
@vlakieste It was like magic to him and his grandmother when they first got it over half a century ago because it was like nothing they had ever seen before. Give him a break. Of course he doesn't really think it's magic.
flyingemu27 11 months ago
@vlakieste
If you ever surpass this guys achievements you get to say that, but until then if he says its magic then it is magic.
Seriously wtf do you think with, it's obvious he means 'magic' as something 'wonderful and unbelievable'.
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@vlakieste you're a fagget! lol, get that monkey out of your vagina and go wash some clothes! XD
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Let me correct you; Self-righteous, shallow, white leftist green scum having the nerve to question where the third world gets their energy or why they aren't driving priuse
Bauernassi 11 months ago
I have great respect for Hans Rosling.
EclecticSceptic 11 months ago 4
hans youve made errors in your data. these past couple of years theres been a boom in cheap disposable like washing machines that cost around 50 dollars. these washing machines in the 3rd world have been leading the way. in making your projections accelerate.
silentmax 11 months ago
Nice guy, awesome talk.
Ernestopro1 11 months ago 2
beautiful, I have this mindset when others try to dictate the lives of people outside the 1st world.
timidgothica 11 months ago
@timidgothica Agreed. Self-righteous, shallow, white people having the nerve to question where the third world gets their energy or why they aren't driving priuses.
Strand0410 11 months ago 3
*Chuckle*... a very tepid applause from the very college educated female audience (checked twice to make sure.)
AlcoholLevel 11 months ago
@AlcoholLevel There are plenty of males in that audience.
Strand0410 11 months ago
@Strand0410 There's one or two but 95% of the audience is women... and this was recorded at TEDWomen 2010.
AlcoholLevel 11 months ago
Social democracy is the answer to inequality.
etniko 11 months ago
Now I have to watch all of Hans Rosling's talk, not just the ones on TED. I wonder if he was as animating in those too. Awesome guy.
Mrmoc7 11 months ago 5
@Mrmoc7 rest assured... every talk by Hans Rosling is a Gem....!! enjoy.
yp06407012 11 months ago
What Hans did, as always, is using great visual aid to explain a complicated topic.
isaacwn 11 months ago 4
As usual, Hans Rosling delivers awesomeness.
DJGelbart 11 months ago 6
there simply isn't enough energy for all those "jumps" he shows at 6:30.
it will be the other way around. the "air people" will become "light bulb people" and so on. unless there is a ultra amazing break through in renewable energy tech.
drorjs 11 months ago
I'm sure the energy already exists, but oil lobbyist will suck up all the Earth's blood before alowing an alternative energy to kick in. By them...guess what???Too late.
mavanzi 11 months ago
@drorjs Fusion, wind, wave, solar, and fission power can produce enough electricity, during the next 40 years.
TzunSu 11 months ago
@TzunSu fusion or fission? I'm sure the wealthy nations will try to install the alternatives before its too late but the question remains open, do we have enough time and energy to build that new infrastructure? To build the "new house" before the old one collapses?
drorjs 11 months ago
@drorjs Both fusion and fission are possible energy sources for the future, not long ago the first fusion experiment that actually yielded more energy then was put in was done. There are lots of problems to overcome though, so i dont expect the first production plant to be built before atleast 20 years goes by. Improved fission can last far longer then that.
TzunSu 11 months ago
@Zasphalahim being poor or rich is all about perception. 100 years from now when the poorest will have access to things unattainable by the richest people today, there is still going to inequality and even a larger perceptual gap between the rich and the poor. I didn't say anything about blinding the poor, nor did i say anything about punishing the rich.
triforcelink 11 months ago
Like if you thought this was going to be a magic show.
DSE819 11 months ago 30
@DSE819 8:10 it IS a magic show.
Pyronaut 11 months ago
@DSE819 It is, in a way.
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americanbandwidth 2 months ago
Prof. Rosling is on a roll. Always worth watching.
Youssef51 11 months ago 3
I always know a Hans Rosling talk is gonna be good.
divadnehc 11 months ago
But what can we do to change that sad an unequal reality?
Kmvv86 11 months ago
I love Hans Rosling
expendedAmmunition 11 months ago
fuck you.
bobo7989 11 months ago
Never see from his perspective until now.... Those who have washing machines do not want others to have washing machines.. The washing machine is just a metaphor...We who have it all are selfish indeed..
stinkiepinkie 11 months ago
Hans Rosling is one of the best speakers at TED. He should do more talks.
stardog1804 11 months ago
what hans doesnt mention is that washing machines pollute a lot and that our machines polute
stiggyh 11 months ago
tayip işini biliyor, ama ne yazik ki yanlış yöne doğru.
kargidesign 11 months ago
Damnit! The man is right!
jesperc20 11 months ago
poverty is caused by the rich, because it gives the poor something to compare themselves to
triforcelink 11 months ago
we take too many things for granted, you shouldnt complain about your computer freezing, when some people complain about their water being brown
GuitarsAreMagic 11 months ago
@GuitarsAreMagic
Those people don't even complain about their water being brown.
flaskis 11 months ago
whats up with black youtube? i want white youtube back :(
natedejuggla 11 months ago
People don't look at the economics of it. Do you know why we 1 seventh of the world are rich? because the other 6/7 are poor. Think about if, if everyone in the rest of the world had the same GDP as your country, or even half of your countries, thats money out of your pocket and into theres.
dev00008 11 months ago
@dev00008
That's completely wrong. When other economies grow it doesn't make us poorer. Matter of fact when developing countries get richer it increase the wealth of the rich countries. That's because you now have more people with the wealth to purchase the goods and services that rich countries produce.
SimonDeMontfort1972 11 months ago 2
I am NEVER complaining about doing the laundry again! O: haha
MiCKi914 11 months ago
This tell me that there are approximately three to four billion too many people on the planet.
captainpisshard 11 months ago
@captainpisshard what are you gonna do kill 3 to 4 billion people and a problems will be solved... we have to learn to adapt because the population is gonna keep growing.
Rush4life240 11 months ago
People like Hans rosling really enlighten you on certain facts about our world.
SuperHackinggenius 11 months ago 3
i wish beautiful women would come out of my washing machine too....
kapa1611 11 months ago
'Thank you power stations and thank tou chemical industry that gave us time to read book' hahaha Hans 'da Man' Rosling owning every stupid environmentalist out there.
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PircCba 11 months ago
I'm willing to bet that the washing machine uses water and energy more efficiently than doing it by hand. Dish washers are more efficient in this respect.
brokenseeker 11 months ago
When the woman's life improves in quality, real quality, not cosmetics and fashion, that society, culture or country progresses much faster than before. This trend is seen everywhere and many times over in world history. Just saying.
actsrv9 11 months ago
Hans Rosling is tha man!
leonidasx666 11 months ago 2
The biggest issue in this world is not energy consumption per se, but overpopulation and the lack of family planning. This is the source of most misery and exploitation today too.
BezBog 11 months ago
You know what this tells me. The top humans have built a great civilization over 1000's of years, and we should be happy we have this civilization and try to bring it to the others in the world.
Raxarax 11 months ago
TED has really jumped the shark lately. Poor people could wash their clothes if they had laundromats. It's not rocket science. Have a communal set of washing machines that are used according to scheduled appointments. Everyone pays for them in a community payment plan and the interest is government subsidized. And theoretically they could be peddle powered by one or two people. In tandem with solar panels it shouldn't be difficult.
DeimosSaturn 11 months ago
@DeimosSaturn "Have a communal set of washing machines that are used according to scheduled appointments. Everyone pays for them in a community payment plan"
Why not just give them money, and let them decide how to spend it?
hitssquad 11 months ago 3
@hitssquad Because that's stupid.
DeimosSaturn 11 months ago
@DeimosSaturn "Because that's stupid."
You don't think people with money are able to get their laundry washed?
hitssquad 11 months ago
15 people don't use a washing machine
jakehalford 11 months ago
@jakehalford thats not nice.
marty1091 11 months ago
He was speaking to the right audience ... all women ... but the message is for everyone.
Mstimson 11 months ago 2
@SuperiorDeity
You remind me of listening to Jared Loughner. Lots of words, but not making sense.
rsigman34 11 months ago
There's nothing about using a lot of energy as long as it's green energy. Sun, wind, geothermal, water. Now that's what I'm talking about.
elpresidio 11 months ago 26
@elpresidio You forgot nuclear. But I forgive you.
daobagua 10 months ago
@elpresidio Problem is that sun and wind cannot provide the baseload, that is the minimum amount of energy you need in order to maintain civilization. They are diffuse and intermittent. And geothermal and water are based on geography. I am a big supporter of nuclear power and believe it is very misunderstood. I've spent the last two years making a feature film on the subject, which I have uploaded to YouTube and arranged on a playlist.
RaySquirrel 5 months ago 2
Summary: If mama aint happy, aint nobody happy.
murphlaw66 11 months ago
He always has a different way of looking at things.
jaisonmathewbaby 11 months ago 2
All his talks are great. I like how he thinks.
elchafa 11 months ago
He's got so much of this nordic vibe in him. :)
AlgeKalipso 11 months ago
Hehe.. I have to show this video to those people wearing knitted hats and brown fleecejackets who care so so much about the enviroment.
I think the solution lies in technology, not in humans themselves. Most people wont drive less, use less electricity and stop using their washing machines! We all want more, more, more when given the chance! And Hans Rosling makes me proud and grateful(to my parents genes) for being randomly born into Scandinavia :)
sensur1 11 months ago
"But until they have the same energy consumption per person, they shouldn't give advice to others, what to do and what not to do"
villainy07 11 months ago
The reason for poverty in the world is uncaring governments. Those billions of folks in the poorest parts of the world are the victims of corruption and exploitation by their own governments. Unfortunately, the false claims of anthropogenic climate change will work to slow the emergence of these poorest people from that awful state. The uncaring so called "environmentalists" have no qualms about the millions that will have to suffer and die for the sake of their vision of the world.
georges255 11 months ago
@georges255 "the reason for poverty in the world is uncaring governments"
It is a truth that the "down & out" are KEPT... down & out, but not only by governments. A person's own family will reject the least among them. Poverty carries with it too many badges... and we always know just who that person is, where they came from and the horrible things they sometimes have to do to survive. Poverty is like a disease that no person wants to be with or near. In other words, it is abandonment.
mindnumber9 11 months ago
Oh, Hans, You rule. It's too bad that your enthusiasm for industrialization is at every turn attacked by shit-sucking collectivists wearing the cowl of environmentalism. Thanks to those inveterate pricks, the most effective washing machines have been replaced by less effective and more expensive models. First they killed the Western toilet and the combustion engine; then took aim at the washer. Go to wall street journal's website and search _How Washington Ruined Your Washing Machine_
gamp0001 11 months ago 2
@SuperiorDeity
You wrote a book. I'm not reading all your insane ramblings. And as for the name, I sincerely apologize to Panpiper. First time every commenting on YouTube.
As for InferiorDiety, those "tyrannical" rulers of the Western Empires fight for free speech. That gives every a-hole like you the right to spew whatever wasted diatribe you desire. You would like to take away that free speech... to "educate" everyone. They are already educated. Just don't agree with you.
rsigman34 11 months ago
I like the way he talk
witzritz 11 months ago
Panpiper, listen to yourself. You are the definition of tyranny. Slaughter or educate all those who disagree with you until they agree with you? What do you want? Re-education camps? To kill more people than all of WWII like Stalin or Mao did?
rsigman34 11 months ago
@rsigman34 It is SuperiorDeity who has proudly stated his willingness, even eagerness, to hold the gun so as to slaughter all those who disagree with him, not me. I am the one who asserts that the violence of state solutions is evil, I am the one who wants to end that kind of violence. I want voluntarism, free people making free decisions. SuperiorDeity wants to force everyone into compliance with 'his' desires and murder those who resist.
Panpiper 11 months ago
@Panpiper First time posting on YouTube, thought @Panpiper was his name. If you read my reply to his reply, I apologize for confusing you with a person like him. I mean really... Anyone with a name like SuperiorDeity has to be a bloated, egotistical imbecile. Capitalism isn't even the problem... it's the people within society (regardless of economical or even political system) that make or break it. Communism works on paper, but presumes people to be good. Not true for many.
rsigman34 11 months ago
@rsigman34 I have made that mistake myself early in my YouTube years. I did not see your corrective post until after I made mine. Just as well, nothing wrong with having two posts distancing me from that vitriol spewing, homicidal luddite.
Panpiper 11 months ago
3:48
OH MY GOD
Maccoy2k 11 months ago
He lost credibility with me when he said that climate change is "real". The guy's smart but he ain't that smart.
Farbar1955 11 months ago
@Farbar1955 You need to learn about it if you seriously think it "is not real". You can debate aspects of it, but it is real.
MrTStoddart 11 months ago
@Farbar1955 The climate is always changing. In that sense, climate change is definitely real. The glaciers have been receding now for hundreds of years (long before human agency could be responsible), so the planet is definitely warming. The question of course is to what degree human action is responsible for current warming, and in 'that' question, there is much room for legitimate, scientific disagreement.
Panpiper 11 months ago
@Panpiper : Wow. An actual, intelligent, sane comment about climate change. I sincerely say, What a breath of fresh air! Thank you.
rippinsteo 11 months ago 3
Brilliant talk, as always. He's absolutely terrific. :D
colinlikeschapstick 11 months ago
eto na naman ang Lolo Hans ko... galing naman ng lolo... visioning what the world needs is to share ika nga :-)
roebertsatorre 11 months ago
now they have washing machines that open on top! ain't that neat
MsTreasuredChest 11 months ago
conclusion: our woman are becoming lazy
gabydewilde 11 months ago
I enjoy Hans' videos, but I don't like how he projects current values and methodologies into the future. We can choose to radically redesign society today if we so choose, but people at TED rarely discuss that option.
Lightrider4444 11 months ago
I laughed all the way through this! He nailed it in a most delightful way. :D
What I also really liked was the change in the numbers if the top tier develops and utilizes green energy. Yes, we can!!
WhiteTiger333 11 months ago
Overpopulation is the elephant in the room that nobody ever mentions.
WarmWeatherGuy 11 months ago
@WarmWeatherGuy Overpopulation is relative to how resource and space efficient infrastructure is. The issue should not be lowering the number of people, it should be creating an infrastructure that sustains itself and also lets the rest of the planet do its thing.
VitriolicAC 11 months ago
@VitriolicAC Search YouTube for "The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See" and listen to Professor Bartlett explain how we WILL have zero population growth.
/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
The only way for everyone to have a washing machine it to have fewer people. Professor Bartlett explains that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. I suspect that if you sit through his video you will realize something new.
WarmWeatherGuy 11 months ago
@WarmWeatherGuy wow everyone vote this up. if not for anything else, do it so others can watch that video he posted. thank you very much for sharing.
somestupiddude1234 11 months ago
There was some one hidden inside, did you see that?
gabydewilde 11 months ago
I am still to see a bad TED talk by a swedish person.
GHortaV 11 months ago 3
@GHortaV - I am still to see no stupid comments on TED talks someday
caviper1 11 months ago
Ok, so...
If we slay the top 1 billion, we'll have enough resource cubes to provide washing machines to the remaining 6 billion?
Sign me up!
Shadowstray 11 months ago
@Shadowstray
Sadly, since you're on a computer, you're in the top billion. Sign yourself up. :P
Saktoth 11 months ago 2
@Shadowstray ok then lead as an example.
reafdaw01 11 months ago
Hans Rosling for Nobel Peace prize. Thumbs up if you agree.
Gnometower 11 months ago 89
@Gnometower certainly more deserving than obama.
BEERIOUS 11 months ago
"ppl wil vote for washing machines, they love them" hahahahahah
mrandersonniga 11 months ago
Everytime I see a new Hans Rosling talk i think to myself - "what, again?" and every single time I am suprised how brilliant it was.
cynik45ACP 11 months ago
Finally a respectable man talking sense.
ClaritySWE 11 months ago
Literally the best talk in months.
Please post more true ideas like this and less of people just talking about events. I can see that on so many other sites and read it in so many other sources.
matics19 11 months ago
Thank Goodness!
TED is presenting something *good* again!
sparrow111260 11 months ago
my favourite TED speaker does it again
heltok 11 months ago
Stop subsidizing energy and let the market make the corrections!
Jotto999 11 months ago 2
How was this even worth a presentation? Its not as if these people aren't going to know most of this information already.
He didn't present a developed solution to the problem , he just pointed out a problem and the difference between MEDCs AND LEDCs which everyone already basically knows! Not even worth an applause.
Koolkattj 11 months ago
@Koolkattj But he's presenting a new perspective on this issue. And he also gave different data than what is usually seen.
Want a solution? We should send washing machines to developing countries so they can spend their time doing better things for themselves like learn or go to school.
I feel like this was a brilliant presentation, to be honest. I'm not sure why you are so against it, but to each their own.
matics19 11 months ago
@matics19 Sending washing machines wouldn't be a solution, it would be another problem. Since 2 billion of the people live under the $2 dollar mark (facts from his presentation), they don't have electricity to use and solar power wouldn't create enough power anyway if you tried that measure.
Its just the fact, he's just pointing out differences between LEDCs and MEDCs, no problem solving. It's basically like rewarding him for distinguishing between black and white, so his eyes work, wippty doo!
Koolkattj 11 months ago
@Koolkattj Solar can provide enough power if u increase the time it takes to wash.. Since you don't need power on demand u can leave out the batteries and just have it run when the sun is shinning. It would probably take 3 hours to wash but it's better than doing it by hand. But the price is too high unless you subsidize it..
ddnguyen278 11 months ago
@ddnguyen278 One problem though, the materials needed to make solar cells are limited. Very limited, we would never have enough solar cells to make a meaningful impact.
sogghartha 11 months ago
@sogghartha Plants seem to do fine with their solar cells made from carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and oxygen.. It's not the limit of the materials but the limits of or knowledge. It could be argued all our oil, coal, gas and bio-mass comes from these same solar collectors which fuel the entire food chain of life on Earth, well except the vent creatures.. Cheap solar cells made from amorphorous silicon (sand) though low in efficiency can run the device just fine, and you'll never run out of sand..
ddnguyen278 11 months ago
@Koolkattj But he's pointing out the definitions/characteristics of those groups of people as examples to demonstrate his overall idea that a) technology like the washing machine makes lives easier so people can focus on self-betterment and productive work, and b) that due to our continued desire to have more "laundry machines" we will reach our energy limit under our current systems, and need to develop new sources of clean energy.
He communicated his ideas, not his solutions. That is TED.
matics19 11 months ago
@Koolkattj Also, my "solution" was more of a joke, really. Don't take it seriously lol. Obviously it's not really the message behind the talk, or really any decent solution at all.
matics19 11 months ago
@Koolkattj I disagree. He pointed out how selfishly inclined the rich are, among emphasizing what can be achieved and where our values should be most stressed. Like racism, people know about it, but it seems that, unfortunately some things must be spelled out, repeatedly, stressing initiative and it's potential benefits... To prove it, I bet you think about this video more than once again ;)
I think it was a passionate, elegant presentation and therefore a joy to watch.
lanceawatt 11 months ago
@SuperiorDeity And who is going to craft such a plan? Who is going to 'force' it upon the whole world? You perhaps (and what army)? I am sure the world would have no problem having someone who cavalierly talks about 'killing off' people till the world reaches a population 'you' are happy with., planning a world war of conquest so they can be genocided upon and then be forced at gun point to live in your supposed utopia.
Panpiper 11 months ago