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jmone:
--- Quote from: JimH on November 10, 2024, 05:21:17 pm ---7 billion people
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Probably will not help your mood, but we are almost 8.2 Billion now. India has also taken over as the largest population. Growth is slowing and is expected to peak at 10.4 billion in 2086 then start declining.
https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time
jmone:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on November 10, 2024, 04:53:07 pm ---...I would happily go back to a different time like the 1950s when there was a boom happening .....
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Sounds great! Well, as long as you were a Straight White Male, Christian, preferably Republican, not drafted for the Korean war, and had just built your fancy new Nuclear Fallout Shelter stocked with the FCDA's recommended seven-day supply of food and water.
JimH:
--- Quote from: jmone on November 10, 2024, 06:08:07 pm ---Probably will not help your mood, but we are almost 8.2 Billion now.
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What. My mood is the problem now? I never said I wasn't grumpy.
jmone:
I just figured you'd like 8.2 less than 7.
astromo:
--- Quote from: JimH on November 10, 2024, 04:46:49 pm ---You can't use statistics to talk about quality of life.
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I'd say that you can but if it's a political situation, it won't land with the majority out there - maybe because there's not enough time to parse the data, not enough understanding to make sense of it or it simply doesn't help pay the bill that the debt collector at the door is demanding cash for.
Useful piece interviewing Jonathan Swan - remember those internet memes from the interview with DJT that he did mid-Covid when he worked for Axios? Yep that guy with the Aussie accent and the RM Williams boots:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming-jonathan-swan-trump/104453264
From what I've taken in over the last few days, he provides the clearest description of how the GOP machine delivered the result. Doesn't change anything but I'm the sort of person who likes to understand, "How the hell did that happen?"
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