The EU's working-age population declines by around a million every year
3.5 million migrants arrive lawfully every year - around 300,000 enter irregularly
"That means that legal migration should grow more or less with one million per year and that is really a challenge to do that in an orderly way", says Ylva Johansson
Tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires have lingering effects. Economic losses via migration from disaster-affected areas increase the year of and after the disaster.
L'Islande comptera bientôt 400.000 habitants. Nous étions 387 758 personnes à y vivre au 1er janvier 2023. Et il y avait à peine 180.000 islandais dans les années 1960. A noter que le taux de chômage dans ce pays était de 3,1 % en octobre dernier.
Le mois de Décembre a été le plus froid jamais enregistré dans le pays depuis le début des années 1990 avec une moyenne de -1,2 degré à Reykjavík et -4,4 degrés à Akureyri.
In 1969, the physicist Albert Bartlett gave a now famous lecture entitled Arithmetic, Population and Energy.👇
It begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
In the context of global challenges such as #climatechange, pandemics & financial crises, the inability to understand exponential growth can lead to delayed responses, inadequate policies, and missed opportunities for intervention.
@Climatehistories In his book Overshoot, "...Catton is making a positive argument for change, rather than misanthropic framework to label our predicament"
and once our predicament is understood, we can then agree and take action.
When we talk to folks about our population goal and the ongoing global trend toward smaller families, people often wonder if having conversations about this is even necessary.
If parental choice is resulting in a slowing of growth and, eventually an easing of our numbers, then we don’t really need to do anything.
But then we point out that some capitalists (like Elon Musk) and a few national governments are already expressing concern about this trend and looking for ways to reverse it.
If we all understand that a smaller, stable human population is a necessary part of a sustainable civilization, then perhaps we can short-circuit any counterproductive interventions.
Here we goooooo!! Canada is expected to announce this week that all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035. Only 12 years left to buy a gas guzzler, people!
My province: population density ~= 1.7 people / km ^ 2. And the population here is concentrated heavily in the southern third of the province - up north, it's 0.2 or 0.1 people / km^2.
For large areas of my province, it will never be #economically feasible to build #charging infrastructure for #EVs.
Census Bureau experts recommend NOT using the Post Enumeration Survey (PES) to update the 2020 population estimates because "While the PES is helpful in identifying coverage issues at the national level, it is not able to identify them as accurately at lower levels of geography because of its design. The PES sample size was simply too small."
Interesting piece. Judging from these figures, you'd assume that by the end of the century Australia will be welcoming a lot more migrants from Africa, in order to bolster the working-age population.
The planet's population will get to 10.4 billion – then drop. Here’s when we reach peak human
I urge you to re-list the West Indian manatee subpopulations, including the #Florida manatee, as endangered. One-fifth of Florida manatees died in the last two years alone. Their #population can’t sustain such heavy losses.
#Pollution in the water has created massive algal blooms which block the sun from reaching the sea floor, killing the #seagrass
People are having fewer kids. A problem for the economy (which needs a rethink anyway, IMHO), but great for the #environment in terms of reduced consumption, #pollution and waste.
For years when #teaching exponential functions I ask “Why is the global human #population over a billion fewer people than what we would predict using a perfectly #exponential model and population figures from the 1950s and 1960s?”
Until about 5 years ago my #students always said “people don’t want big families anymore” an OK answer. But, now? they all say “the model doesn’t account for enough death”
imagine getting distracted from a live slaughter of #indigenous#people in the middle east because your #government (currently actively funding the current #genocide) wants you to celebrate the massacring of the indigenous #population on This #land that they successfully rebranded as a Holiday About Gratitude. like please be serious. please