https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/population-climate-progress.html
There is this absolutely #weird #obsession with #population #degrowth when #global #poor are left to die in the #heatwave #drought #flood #storm #hurricane #starvation all the time by the #oligarchy #plutocracy #billionaires
First #save the #orphans around the world before talking about #depopulation #fertilityrates etc.
So what's going on here?
1) An overall falling birth rate, below replacement level in a rich country like the UK, is a GOOD THING.
2) If poorer families are disproportionately unlikely to have children, that is a BAD THING.
3) #DemographicSlowdown does bring challenges but they can be addressed. Clue: expect lots of #ClimateRefugees in coming decades.
Bridget Phillipson says she wants more young people in UK to have children | Bridget Phillipson |
https://archive.ph/X2NJ1
#population #BirthRate
**The Demographic Race between India and China**
"_Using multi-dimensional demographic projections by age, sex, education, and labor force participation, we show that China’s current apparent demographic travails will not necessarily threaten its leading status relative to India for most of the next half century given India’s disadvantage in educational attainment and very low female labor force participation._"
Marois, G., Gietel-Basten, S. & Lutz, W. The Demographic Race between India and China. Popul Res Policy Rev 44, 44 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09966-y.
In grad school I noticed a printed message on the wall of our research lab. It was something like "distill information from the hint of implication" (bad memory).
I innocently said to an older grad student, "Yeah, that does sound like a way to commit Type-I errors" or something equivalent.
Well, that's not what the older grad student took from the sign and I got a very cold, slightly huffy response.
Job vacancy 
#Postdoctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation as part of the #ERCfunded #MigrantLife project and the #ESRCfunded Centre for #Population Change & Connecting #Generations - based at the University of #StAndrews School of #Geography & #SustainableDevelopment.
Closing: 8 July 2025
How long would it take for humans to go extinct if we stopped having babies?
"If humans were to go extinct, it could open up opportunities for other animals to flourish on Earth. On the other hand, it would be sad for humans to go away because we would lose all of the great achievements people have made, including in the arts and science."
There're more kangaroos than humans in almost every Australia state.
Now imagine if kangaroos had their own Fediverse… 
The curious Corporate Narrative developing right now that is saying Canada has "too many people" while (White) Americans are being told there are not enough (White) people in Gilead.
Les #célébrités « normales » comme des acteurs se payent (ou se les font payer par un employeur ou mandataire ou agent) des gardes du corps.
Et cela ne me choque spécialemement.
Mais LÀ nos #impôts devaient leur payer une protection privée ? ? Qui affaiblit donc la protection générale de la #population (puisque la police est un service public, ici dévoyée vers une poignée de #riches #avares) ? ?
https://www.sciencealert.com/over-2-million-americans-went-missing-during-2020-and-2021 In 1st yrs of #COVID19 #pandemic, #Americans were dying at a much higher rates than other wealthy nations. New analysis now estimates that in 2020 & 2021 more than 2 million Americans went 'missing' from the #population. These are people who would still be alive if the US had same death rate as other high-income nations. "Imagine the lives saved, grief and trauma averted, if the US simply performed at the average of our peers," #trump #maga #vaccines #publichealth #CDC
In this article they discuss how some researchers studying rural regions found that official estimates of population in these rural regions often vastly undercount, so that there could be 2 or 3x as many people in these regions as reported. Enough to make the global population estimates much more uncertain than they appear to be. #demography #demographics #population #statistics
#politics #janegoodall #enviroment #population #musk #elonmusk #resist #resistance #alt
Borowitz Report NOT SATIRE
Musk Picks a Fight with Jane Goodall
In a “historic turnaround,” the city of Detroit’s population grew for the second year in a row, jumping by around 12,500 people, after consistently declining for over 50 years
#detroit #UnitedStates #population #michigan #news
It puzzles me when people argue like this about population. Forgetting that Western countries have a resource footprint that is orders of magnitude greater than those of poorer parts of the world, we are, as a species, overwhelming the planet. Arguments about ‘who is going to do all the work/look after the elderly etc..’ are a slightly different thing - but we will not solve them with population growth.
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Russia passed a bill banning what state-run news wires describe as the "public propaganda of the ideas of voluntarily choosing not to have children."
Russian authorities have restricted access to abortions and contraception and have even offered pregnant women payouts in a bid to encourage the population to have children.
It is estimated that Russia's population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades.
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https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ban-harry-potter-childfree-ideology-2074120
Tokyo officials are pushing back against arguments that blame Japan's dwindling national population partly on the concentration of people and businesses in the capital. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/15/japan/japan-regional-revitalization/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #population #decentralization #rurallife #tokyo #yurikokoike
Either we control ourselves or nature will solve the problem.
"At some point, preferably before the last forest is cut down, before too many species have gone extinct, before the last fish is pulled from the sea, before we get to “ hothouse Earth”, and before the rivers run dry, we have to stop population growth."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/yes-we-do-need-a-population-plan/
#AusPol
#population
Groundwater Pumping Is Contributing To The Subsidence Of Major U.S. Cities
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/08/climate/sinking-cities-us-causes-groundwater.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00240-y <-- shared paper
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#water #groundwater #subsidence #city #cities #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #engineeringgeology #engineering #risk #hazard #pumping #overpumping #waterresources #USA #America #sinking #infrastructure #damage #cost #economics #repais #mitigation #sealevelrise #flood #flooding #foundations #urban #remotesensing #earthobservation #satellite #elevation #measurement #change #vertical #movement #geology #soils #model #modeling #prediction #waterresources #farming #agriculture #watersupply #industry #well #riskassessment #landuse #monitoring #management #utilities #growth #population #demographics #construction #sprawl
Egypt’s Race Against Time: Averting Crisis Amidst a Population Surge https://www.byteseu.com/987149/ #Egypt #Featured #Government #plans #Population
Well, this image undermines all those racists claiming "the country's full".
Greg Cocks 
