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| #Post#: 18580-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Demographic Blueshift | |
| By: guest98 Date: March 24, 2023, 3:12 pm | |
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| https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/22/immigration-fuels-record-high-canada-p… | |
| Immigration fuels record-high population growth in Canada | |
| [quote] | |
| Canada has seen a record boom in its population, with Ottawa | |
| citing higher immigration targets and a �record-breaking year | |
| for the processing of immigration applications� as being | |
| responsible for the increase. | |
| The most recent bump has also been fuelled by new citizens from | |
| abroad, with international migration accounting for nearly 96 | |
| percent of the growth. | |
| Trudeau�s government has doubled the pre-existing target for | |
| welcoming newcomers since coming to power in 2015. A record | |
| 437,180 immigrants landed in Canada in 2022. That number is | |
| scheduled to rise to 500,000 per year by 2025. | |
| Statistics Canada said that �high job vacancies and labour | |
| shortages� have fuelled the high rate of immigration. It also | |
| noted Canada�s ageing population, with one in seven residents | |
| between the ages of 55 and 64, providing opportunity to welcome | |
| more people. | |
| [/quote] | |
| #Post#: 18637-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: IbnHaytham Date: March 28, 2023, 4:05 pm | |
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| Why Overpopulation is Actually a Problem | |
| [quote]In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, | |
| I look at why the myth of overpopulation is actually a problem. | |
| Specifically, I look at how overpopulation is leading to | |
| dangerous conclusions both on the right and the left. On the | |
| right, it's leading to conclusions of population control, | |
| murder, and ethnic cleansing. On the [FALSE]-left, it manifests | |
| as birth control access, but is still couched in the ideas of | |
| population control. Overpopulation is ultimately a myth that at | |
| best distracts from the needed work of climate action, and at | |
| worst leads to violence.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHX2dVn0c8 | |
| From the True Left perspective birth is violence since no one | |
| consented to being born into this world in the first place. | |
| [img] | |
| https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/gS5mACAzJrsx502urFCWHw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRl… | |
| #Post#: 21693-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 23, 2023, 10:07 pm | |
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| https://finance.yahoo.com/news/humans-verge-population-correction-2099-18360090… | |
| [quote]Humans Are on the Verge of a 'Population Correction' by | |
| 2099, Scientist Warns | |
| ... | |
| Humans pollute and deplete the very resources they need to | |
| survive. Bio-ecologist William Rees, professor emeritus at the | |
| University of British Columbia�s School of Community and | |
| Regional Planning, says it with even a little more gumption. He | |
| believes that the exhaustion of resources will lead to a | |
| �population correction� in this century. | |
| In a study published in World, Rees calls the entire situation | |
| an �advanced overshoot� of population. �We are consuming and | |
| polluting the biophysical basis of our own existence,� he wrote. | |
| And it can�t last. | |
| Rees says that climate change is the best-known symptom of this | |
| overshoot, but the mainstream solutions will only accelerate | |
| climate disruption and worsen the overall problem. �Humanity is | |
| exhibiting the characteristic dynamics of a one-off population | |
| boom-bust cycle,� he wrote in the study. �The global economy | |
| will inevitably contract, and humanity will suffer a major | |
| population correction in this century.� | |
| Any such population correction would be a stark about-face from | |
| the growth the world has seen over the last two centuries. In | |
| 1800, the world�s population hovered around 1 billion people. | |
| Now, roughly 200 years later, that population has ballooned to | |
| about 8 billion. | |
| The exponential reproduction, as Rees dubs it, has led humans to | |
| expand geographically and consume all available resources. And | |
| while in history, that expansionist tendency was countered by | |
| the natural environment�s �negative feedback,� the increase of | |
| scientific resourcefulness and fossil fuels has enabled humans | |
| to �realize our full potential for exponential growth.�[/quote] | |
| So, which one civilization is to blame for this? | |
| [quote]But therein lies the issue. Humans can grow and maintain | |
| a population only by consuming and extracting the resources from | |
| the ecosphere, all while sending waste back in return. That | |
| population boom in two centuries, all on a finite planet, �has | |
| thus propelled modern techno-industrial society into a state of | |
| advanced overshoot.� | |
| Not only is our reliance on fossil fuels impacting various | |
| aspects of our existence, but Rees says that additional | |
| overshoot stresses�from consuming biomass to upheaval in | |
| planetary nutrient cycles�have considerable negative impacts as | |
| well. Together, he claims that they push us toward that | |
| potentially dire correction. | |
| By relying on our typical short-sighted view of the world that | |
| has humans taking what they can when resources are available, we | |
| have left ourselves very little room for existence when the | |
| availability of resources greatly diminishes. | |
| The only direction to go from here, Rees wrote, is the | |
| inevitable correction of our population. That correction could, | |
| according to his paper, drop the population to no more than 3 | |
| billion and as few as 100 million | |
| ... | |
| he believes that only the rich will be able to survive the | |
| coming correction, noting that a �collapse is not a problem to | |
| be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.� | |
| �Global culture is beginning to unravel,� he wrote, �and that | |
| the one-off human population boom is destined to bust.�[/quote] | |
| Who deserves to survive the correction? Those from the | |
| civilization which set it up, or those from the civilizations | |
| which did not set it up? Yet it appears as though those who are | |
| likely to survive it are precisely those who least deserve to | |
| survive it. | |
| If we want any realistic chance of a different outcome, we need | |
| borders totally open and lots of firearms in the hands of | |
| climate refugees. | |
| #Post#: 21714-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: rp Date: August 25, 2023, 12:05 pm | |
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| This is the idea behind demographic blueshift: | |
| https://twitter.com/dharma__vijay/status/1691898060354498629?s=20 | |
| [quote]The problem with India is high population density. In | |
| Chennai, if I leave my street and go to the main road, it is | |
| full of traffic and people. Ideally India needs to capture more | |
| land and resettle people in captured land.[/quote] | |
| #Post#: 21717-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 25, 2023, 12:35 pm | |
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| India's population needs to return to pre-colonial numbers: | |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Historical_population… | |
| The remainder of Indians should emigrate: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg10011/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg13119/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg13361/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg13528/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg15800/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg20470/?topicseen#m… | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/msg20653/?topicseen#m… | |
| #Post#: 21721-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: rp Date: August 25, 2023, 5:11 pm | |
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| Indian CM Yogi Adityanath proposes population control: | |
| https://theprint.in/opinion/cm-yogis-up-population-control-bill-is-designed-to-… | |
| #Post#: 24470-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: rp Date: December 16, 2023, 7:23 am | |
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| https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/09/21/religious-composition-of-india/ | |
| [Quote] | |
| Muslims still have the highest fertility rate among India�s | |
| major religious groups, followed by Hindus at 2.1. Jains have | |
| the lowest fertility rate (1.2). The general pattern is largely | |
| the same as it was in 1992, when Muslims had the highest | |
| fertility rate at 4.4, followed by Hindus at 3.3. But the gaps | |
| in childbearing between India�s religious groups are generally | |
| much smaller than they used to be. For example, while Muslim | |
| women were expected to have an average of 1.1 more children than | |
| Hindu women in 1992, the gap had shrunk to 0.5 by 2015 | |
| [/Quote] | |
| Common Jain W | |
| #Post#: 24598-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: rp Date: December 28, 2023, 8:44 am | |
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| https://twitter.com/IndiccAmsha/status/1740291041356640677 | |
| [quote] | |
| lndicAmsha | |
| @IndiccAmsha | |
| In 1976, during emergency, Sanjay Gandhi forced MusIims and ugIy | |
| poor people to undergo mass forced sterilisation, he sterilised | |
| 6.2M people in a year and unofficially 11.1M (1cr) in two years, | |
| (more than nazis did) and kiIIed many, he was the kind of | |
| dictator India needs today. | |
| [img width=1068 | |
| height=1280] | |
| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCbBeIIbQAA125r?format=jpg&name=large[/img] | |
| [/quote] | |
| #Post#: 24599-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 28, 2023, 2:06 pm | |
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| What a waste of bloodlines! If only those 11.1M had been | |
| encouraged to emigrate to Britain/Canada/Australia/etc. instead! | |
| #Post#: 24657-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Population and Demographics | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 3, 2024, 12:27 am | |
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| I hope this is true, at least: | |
| https://twitter.com/americakaran/status/1727406694001504626 | |
| [quote]As Indian land values increases alongside lack of good | |
| jobs, more Indians will sell their land to finance their sons to | |
| fly to El Salvador and trek across the US border[/quote] | |
| But why only to the US? | |
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