slums, waste, idol hands of abject poverty. my next guest spent a lot of time studying some these places, particularly the flavellas like those spotlighted in brazil. he sees the bright side to slums. ed rozier studies slums. you have a chapter called, what s good about slums. when you look at those slums in brazil, in india, what are we missing? we re missing the alternative. while we would never want to spend a week or month of our lives in these slums, the people who come there are not fools, they are moving places that are far worse. it gives them the ability to find a future.