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World inequality and resources: thinking outside the goldfish bowl. Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, UK Slideshow adapted from talks given at the Hay Festival and in Zurich in 2009, thanks to Anna Barford and John Pritchard for help with this – and all involved in worldmapper.
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World inequality and resources:thinking outside the goldfish bowl • Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, UK • Slideshow adapted from talks given at the Hay Festival and in Zurich in 2009, thanks to Anna Barford and John Pritchard for help with this – and all involved in worldmapper www.worldmapper.org
Avoiding distorted views • In July 2004 Italian council official Giampietro Mosca of the city of Monza secured his place in history. He confirmed that local laws had been changed to outlaw keeping goldfish in curved bowls. "A fish kept in a bowl has a distorted view of reality...and suffers because of this," Mr Mosca is reported to have said. Giampietro continued: “This story about the goldfish, which has gone around Italy, seems a little irrelevant and people have mocked it a bit, but it has a very specific educational sense, especially for the little ones." • Gilbert, D. (2006). Stumbling on Happiness. London, Harper Collins. (page 171). www.worldmapper.org
World income distribution ($PPP) www.worldmapper.org
Only ‘normal’ in log/log space www.worldmapper.org
Imagine what the world might look like after a global environmental disaster. • It is a strange looking world. • A world in which over a billion are forced to live in slums … • . www.worldmapper.org
Urban Slums www.worldmapper.org
Slum Growth www.worldmapper.org
… three billion with only the basic sanitation of a (often communal) pit latrine available … • although for the few with such a system in affluent countries this is usually no problem.. • . www.worldmapper.org
Improved Sanitation www.worldmapper.org
… another two and a half billion without even that … • . www.worldmapper.org
Poor Sanitation www.worldmapper.org
… two billion living in homes as overcrowded as last seen in Victorian times • . www.worldmapper.org
Overcrowded Homes www.worldmapper.org
… well over a billion with access only to dirty water – and that they have to walk for … although millions have recently been connected to piped water in China … • . www.worldmapper.org
Poor Water www.worldmapper.org
Water Connected www.worldmapper.org
Water Connecting www.worldmapper.org
… A world where half the population are crowded into poorly designed cities into which a billion are moving within a generation… • . www.worldmapper.org
City Growth www.worldmapper.org
Following the environmental disaster over a billion try to live at below subsistence levels … • . www.worldmapper.org
The Wretched Dollar (up to $1 a day) www.worldmapper.org
… many more than a billion and a half more in absolute poverty … • . www.worldmapper.org
Absolute Poverty (up to $2 a day) www.worldmapper.org
The numbers undernourished are growing … • . www.worldmapper.org
Undernourishment in 1990 www.worldmapper.org
Undernourishment in 2000 www.worldmapper.org
… and within a generation we should expect those to top a billion, over half being underweight children … • . www.worldmapper.org
Underweight Children www.worldmapper.org
Millions of children have to work … • . www.worldmapper.org
Child Labour www.worldmapper.org
… and two out of five children do not ever attend a secondary school … • . www.worldmapper.org
Secondary Education www.worldmapper.org
The same proportion of babies is born without a midwife or some other person with her knowledge present … • . www.worldmapper.org
Births Attended www.worldmapper.org
Following the disaster it is hardly surprising that over 3 million pregnancies a year result in death at birth – almost all where the disaster hit hardest … • . www.worldmapper.org
Stillbirths www.worldmapper.org
A further 3 million newborn babies struggle then die in much the same places during their first week of life … • . www.worldmapper.org
Early Neonatal Mortality www.worldmapper.org
… each year there are over ten million children dying a year before their fifth birthday – almost all where the disaster was most acute … • . www.worldmapper.org
Infant Mortality www.worldmapper.org
Mortality 1-4 Year Olds www.worldmapper.org
Almost two hundred and fifty million children of these ages suffer from diarrhoea, mostly in these worse-off places and that is where the disease is more often fatal … • . www.worldmapper.org
Childhood Diarrhoea www.worldmapper.org
Other diseases are most concentrated in impact where the environmental damage is greatest. Often these are diseases that were common in the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of Victorian times. Cholera is still widespread, over one hundred and fifty thousand cases a year … • . • . • . www.worldmapper.org
Cholera Cases www.worldmapper.org
… and a few thousands of deaths each year despite its susceptibility to treatment and prevention … • . www.worldmapper.org
Cholera Deaths www.worldmapper.org
More than eight million cases of tuberculosis are recorded in the disaster area annually; and 72 million cases of malaria … • . www.worldmapper.org
Malaria Cases www.worldmapper.org
… resulting in over one hundred thousand deaths a year … • . www.worldmapper.org
