Hans Rosling's answers to the TED and Reddit community interview

http://blog.ted.com Here, Hans Rosling answers the top 10 questions asked and voted on by the TED community through Reddit. See the original blog post here: http://blog.ted.com/2009/09/reddit_and_ted.php And see all the questions here: http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ga2p/ask_hans_rosling_ted_rockstar_and_stats_... Look for similar community interviews in the next weeks!

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[Juangui123]

Your comments are not only ridiculous, but also relevant because gives a notion of how rightwing propaganda distort reality. Sweden, Denmark and Finland (which are well known to be nanny state) are top 4, 5, 6 in the world in competitiveness. The bureaucracy is far less than in USA (in all levels), and we dont have a police state like in 1984, like in USA right now. Get the facts right and then you talk. The socialist Switzerland (healthcare and education are free) is top one in the world.

[tjockisgurra]

Where the F do you get off comparing Sweden to the Soviet union? And 1984? It just shows your lack of insight...

[crudhousefull]

So few people have a more holistic view of life and the world than this gentleman. Mr. Rosling is one of the very very few people I respect in this world (that I've seen or hear from obviously lol).

[Samoaqueen]

He really likes that shirt :D

[axelasdf]

@descendantdan

You don't realize that the global problems are individual problems. This will only come out of changing minds, not pointing the gun of governments at their people and each other.

[descendantdan]

@axelasdf

We face global problems, sovereignty is barley extant in a world where corporations have bigger balance sheets than governments, this is a fact we cannot change so we must adapt our modes of thinking to create new solutions.

What we do need to do is a address the problem of the massive increase in population and have a unified response to global warming or as a civilization and maybe even a species our time will soon run out.

[axelasdf]

The "Global Government" comment at the start turned me off to the video immediately. I like sovereign competing states. "Friends with all, but allies with none".

[sabisabiti]

this is crazy. your data is amazing. but it would be nice if it doesn't come with the propaganda behind it. but the solutions are totally skewed. just sounds like the idea is to still keep the top at the top and the bottom at the bottom. just at a "better" level. aid is no good except for emergencies. ppl want to matter and want to learn to create and make things possible for themselves and others. not be permanent recipients (usually at the expense of themselves).

[Aliothemage]

Actually Switzerland's economy is more free then that of the US. They actually have the 4th freest economy according to the Frazer Institute's Economic Freedom of the World Report. It is in part due to this freedom that they are so successful.

[gyuceturk]

@ 8:12 - 17:51 nice answer