Explaining population growth requires simplification, but not oversimplification.
In this TED video, Hans Rosling explains why ending poverty – over the coming decades – is crucial to stop population growth. Only by raising the living standards of the poorest, in an environmentally-friendly way, will population growth stop at 9 billion people in 2050.
Explaining population growth with IKEA boxes
This is fantastic stuff! Thank you. I've been browsing the gapminder website: it's great, with downloadable lessons, power points.. lots of content that challenges preconceived ideas and opens up new doors. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSo pleased you liked! It was my colleague of science at da Vinci who recommended it to me ...cross-curricular fun!!! Let's open some more doors....
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