I found this video fascinating for a couple of reasons:
- I’m used to reading statistics in black and white numbers and percentages. Sometimes they are given in a graph or a chart. But never like this!
- We live in an interesting time where population growth is unprecedented (meaning: the world has never had this many people living on it at one time!). Coupled with staggering growth in population is that people are living longer, but not necessarily making more money. The disparity between the two – life expectancy/population growth and money is interesting to me. As a kingdom person, someone who is interested in what God wants to do in this world (redeem/fix/restore, etc), I’m intrigued with what role God’s people have to play in it all…
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I saw this video a while back and it’s fantastic. He’s also talked at TED:
http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html