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Global population growth box

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Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box
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v=fTznEIZRkLg
1.How was the distance from the poorest to the richest in 2010? it was wider
than ever. Is it still the same? Why do you think that has happened?

2.What is the world population now? What do you think it will be by 2050?
What are some problems that dramatic population growth can cause?

3.What does Rosling say about population growth?


He also says that having less children puts us in
a better economic situation? Do you think this has
any impact on the environment?

4) What relationship does the presenter make between the transition from
lower to higher economic status and the means of transport? What impact
has this had on the environment?

5) Why do you think he said that only if we invest in the right green technology
people will move to a better economic situation?

6) Do you think the COVID is the result of:

a) the non-environmentally friendly economic system

we live in? How can this be changed?

b) overpopulation? is the virus mainly killing old and

sick people because of evolutionary reasons?

c) Other reasons. Which ones and why?

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