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Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by roschdal »

Europe has been ruined, since USA interfered militarily in Europe.

Since 1900, major U.S. military interventions in Europe have included full-scale combat operations during World War I (1917–1918) and World War II (1941–1945), as well as targeted Allied troop deployments in Archangel and Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918–1920). Throughout the Cold War, U.S. forces executed non-combat and advisory operations, such as supplying West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) and providing direct military aid during the Greek Civil War (1947–1949). In the post-Cold War era, the U.S. engaged in several NATO-led Balkan campaigns, including airstrikes and peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), a 78-day air campaign and ground deployment in Yugoslavia and Kosovo (1999), and a brief disarmament operation in North Macedonia (2001).

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by spockz »

It appears that it is turning into a problem in Italy for another reason. In mountainous regions the streams would be maintained by the people owning the land. With people leaving the area the waterways are left unmaintained leaving debris such as large trunks as branches in the water. This effect is compounded by that the land that remains “actively” owned is divided amongst many descendants that can never agree to either fix something or pay to get it fixed.

The consequence of all this is that water flows less freely and that when there is a lot of rainfall it comes not just with water but also large amounts of trees and stones.

I imagine this happening in many places.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by yoz-y »

riffraff wrote: post #8

It is my hope that increased connectivity and options to study, work, and interact with other people from anywhere will partially revert this trend, but honestly, it seems inevitable. Part of my family hails from a small Mountain Village which used to be quite alive thirty years ago, but now the majority of the population is above 60, and there's only a handful of children. Small towns have many positive sides, but n…

For me towns have more perverse networks though. You meet more people but the connections are more shallow (as an adult).

I am really torn about where to raise my kid as it really seems one has to choose between opportunities and social/family life.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by jacobolus »

ta20240528 wrote: post #9
rf15 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, but it's still rough. I live 200m from the border of a european capital with good road access towards everything, and even our community is continually shrinking.

Here's how you can stop it: no national licences to distribute power, telecommunications, medicine, fuel, etc. Even some software. Then you will have to have regional duplicates of each. Stuff will cost more though.

This will possibly help region-central cities keep a small proportion of the jobs that have moved to the biggest national/international cities. It's not going to help rural villages.

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by Flaiming »

There are definitely some data missing, because in Czechia where I live there are some areas on the map with 100% decline in population like Libavá and Březina, which definitely have some population. I don't know about any village that would be totally de-populated. https://obyvateleceska.cz/olomouc/libava/503941

Re: Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

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Post by nobodywillobsrv »

roschdal wrote: post #11

Europe has been ruined, since USA interfered militarily in Europe. Since 1900, major U.S. military interventions in Europe have included full-scale combat operations during World War I (1917–1918) and World War II (1941–1945), as well as targeted Allied troop deployments in Archangel and Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918–1920). Throughout the Cold War, U.S. forces executed non-combat and advisory operations,…

Yes. This is basically true but unclear the causal link to the true problems.
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