Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker. He is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
He speaks on future energy use world-wide:
Hans Rosling at TED: Civilization depends on washing machines.
In two generations, Swedish women went from washing clothes in water heated over wood fires to washing machines, thus freeing up time to read and study. Rosling asks how we can deny that to 3rd world women who today spend countless hours washing clothes the old way.
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