[p2p-research] ulitmate anti-collapse video

[Michel Bauwens]

the subject-line is of course provocative,

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/22/wealth-and-health-of-200-countries-in-the-world-over-last-200-years.aspxis
a must watch video

what rossling shows is almost 200 years of uninterrupted progress in terms
of poverty and health, and that the west and the global south are actually
converging

quite contrary to the usual narrative from some on the left

rossling does not deny inequalities, but subsumes them under a broader
narrative of social progress, and he stresses that even most laggard have
very broadly progressed in health and life expectancy

of course the great missing ingredient in here is the third axis of
environmental externalities, resource depletion etc ..

2 questions:

1) are rosling figures sound?

2) how would that third axis change the picture ....

Michel

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