Just a bit ago Africa had fewer people than either of our continents

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    relevance and poppulation quantity are different things tho. nations stay relevant by providing safe and stable environments for science and economy and supporting neighbours and less fortunate nations.

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      9 days ago

      That’s a good point. Still, I’d say that the larger a population, the more it is likely that such a place will appear somewhere within that population to replace the current ones.

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    Yeah all lines fall off a cliff due to climate change. More people just means more bodies to clean up or not clean up from weather events or the pandemics coming after 2030.

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    Can’t happen soon enough. The irrelavence, not neccessarilly all the “o m gee they out-number us!!” non-sense. Let’s hope they have a better time of it than India, but its not looking good, thanks to … US and European interference!