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Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know

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Re: Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But what happens when the part of society that is living in economically stable and educated households > is not even reproducing to the point of replacing itself, while those living in low education and low > income households are massively reproducing? Migration is what happens. Followed by integration.

Can you explain how you see this as a solution? We can view this problem on any scale as it seems to be applicable everywhere. On a world scale the fundamental issue is that people who are of low education, low income, and high religiosity are increasingly the ones primarily repopulating our planet. This means that any given child is more and more likely to be born into this sort of circumstance. And many of these ch…

> Can you explain how you see this as a solution?

I don't. It's not a solution, it's the reality, this is what happens in the environment that GP described.

And I have no idea which problem do you think I meant it for...

Re: Three facts from “Our World in Data” that everyone should know

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Relevant Kurzgesagt video on overpopulation: https://youtu.be/QsBT5EQt348 I learnt about the overpopulation myth during my undergrad, but I'm continuously surprised by how many people (including Thanos) didn't know this. Edit: Here's a chart of expected population growths. It's expected to start slowing down[1] [1]: Select WORLD from the menu: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/

That video is fantastic, thanks for linking to it. Does anyone know how it was produced?

They did mention this a bit and I think they even did a course on some site about how they made it. The one software I remember them mentioning: Adobe After Effects
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