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There is a fantastic video by Hans Rosling about the global population growth and why global population might actually stall around 10 billion people: https://
by WA 8y ago
There is a fantastic video by Hans Rosling about the global population growth and why global population might actually stall around 10 billion people:
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth/up-next https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
This relates to fact 2 in the article.
- lancebeet 8y agoHis foundation's website also has some really nice data visualizations: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/ https://www.gapminder.org/tools/
- amingilani 8y agoHere's a UN chart: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/ https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/
- ForHackernews 8y agoFor the sake of the environment and every nonhuman species, we'd better hope that population growth doesn't just stall but reverses itself.
- vjerancrnjak 8y agoIt's going to be weird to live in an age when pyramidal schemes (pension systems, academia etc.), that have been foundation of the modern civilization, start falling apart (given that they are based on a healthy population pyramid).
- gbear605 8y agoThat's modern-day Japan.
- ForHackernews 8y agoWe're going to have to adapt. New technology and higher productivity should allow us to keep enjoying higher standards of living with declining populations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy