• @riodoro1
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    38 hours ago

    Oh noes the ponzi scheme of capitalism will collapse.

    Don’t worry, by 2100 famines will make those numbers look hopeful.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 hours ago

    And still people don’t realise what a blessing immigration actually is for everybody involved!

  • kbal
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    401 day ago

    Demographics can tell you a lot about how it will go in 20 or 30 years, but trying to predict what will happen in 75 years — based on trends that have only been in place for a decade — is foolish.

    • poVoqM
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      131 day ago

      It’s not like that the creators calling themselves “Visual Capitalist” wasn’t a dead give away that this would be based on foolish assumptions 🙄

      • @[email protected]
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        47 hours ago

        The forecast comes from the United Nations. “Visual Capitalist” just made the graphic.

    • @[email protected]
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      423 hours ago

      And let’s not forget: Europe is literally drowning people who want to live there in the Mediterranean. There will also be refugees coming from whatever happens to the USA right now who want to get out. That map might be based on current population trends, but political events will change everything there.

  • @[email protected]
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    351 day ago

    Whose idea was it to make the color scale absolute instead of relative to the current population?

  • Björn Tantau
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    111 day ago

    Then let’s add climate change to the table and all bets are off.

    • @[email protected]
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      523 hours ago

      Oh no we won’t be considering that. We’re still pretending that’s just an issue for the polar bears.

    • @[email protected]
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      322 hours ago

      We’ve been growing at 60k a year or so for decades. Went from 6m to 9m in just 25 years. This graphic misleading as it apparently ignores immigration.

      • @x00z
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        321 hours ago

        It literally says it takes migration into account.