1/25/11

seeing the forest through the trees

it's very easy to point out all the terrible things happening in the world right now.
we become so embedded in an issue or cause that it's hard to see the small progressive steps we've taken toward our goals.
hans rosling, a global health expert took a very large step back and gathered trends in world health and income over the last 200 years.
instead of recording his data in an academic journal and calling it a day, he realized the importance of visual representation and created this presentation.