It's getting warm

[Cousin Strawberry]

Or...just sterilize every other newborn. Waaaay too many hungries scavenging over the dumps looking for old chicken bones.

[Per]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terenc ... o-our-kids

So at the age of 8, after seeing some no debunked climate alarmist pictures, young Greta's aspergers kicked in and launched her on a single minded obsession to fight climate change.

Her obsessive compulsive actions are a result of her mental illness.

The same mental illness and single minded determination that drove Adam Lanza's obsessive compulsion disorder.

I’m not sure Asperger’s should be considered a mental illness. People who have it are as smart or smarter than regular people. They are just wired differently. They are hyper~logical and tend to do really well in academics, many professors have it, but have problems reading other people and usually do not irony or sarcasm. They are a bit like Spock from star trek.

It definitely has bearing on her activism. She doesn’t understand the illogical behaviour of ”normal” people. How can we worry about climate change and then fly to Thailand for a vacation? It does not compute in her hyperlogical mind.

[Per]

Or...just sterilize every other newborn. Waaaay too many hungries scavenging over the dumps looking for old chicken bones.

It’s already taking care of itself. In two thirds of the countries of the world fertility rates are now at less than two children per woman, ie the rate necessary to maintain a steady population.

Look at the population pyramids:









The only place where it still looks like a pyramid is Africa, the most sparsely populated continent, and even there it is beginning to change as poverty is reduced.

[Topper]

Nice curves.

[Topper]

Climate fully functioned all day yesterday. Guess ours is non union.

[Cousin Strawberry]

We dont need a steady population we need a declining population. Theres waaay too many people

[Mickey107]

We dont need a steady population we need a declining population. Theres waaay too many people

Especially in Walmarts.

[Per]

We dont need a steady population we need a declining population. Theres waaay too many people

OK, but on every continent, except in Africa, there are too few children born to maintain a steady population, ie the population will start to decline. Slowly though, because people live longer today, so it may tale another 50 years until the population really starts to decline.But we’ve passed peak child on every continent but Africa.

Even in Latin America, there were more people born twenty years ago than today.

When women have a right to choose, and access to contraceptives, the number of births go down.

[Per]

There’s a problem though...

If you look at the European pyramid, as that bulge continues to move up...
Eventually we will have more people who are retired than who are working.
That’s going to mess up the economy really bad.

One of the measures we could take is to have people retire much later.
Or we could encourage immigration of people in working ages.

But something needs to be done to address it.

[Per]

Here are some weird ones:



The Russians have a xmas tree.
Apparently they stopped having children roughly at the time the Soviet Union collapsed.
Also note that Russian men drink themselves into an early grave. A whole lot of men missing at the top of the tree.




The Chinese one is also weird. I assume they loosened the one child policy thirty years ago, and a lot of families added a second child really quickly, then they stopped again. I’m not really sure, but I think they now have a policy where one child families have free school and health care, but if you choose to have more children, you have to pay for school and healthcare yourself for all your children.



Italy is a mess. Their bulge is about to retire, and there are barely any children.
Who will pay taxes to pay for those pensions? Who will take care of the elderly?
It’s a ticking time bomb.



Germany is almost as bad.

[Strangelove]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terenc ... o-our-kids

So at the age of 8, after seeing some no debunked climate alarmist pictures, young Greta's aspergers kicked in and launched her on a single minded obsession to fight climate change.

Her obsessive compulsive actions are a result of her mental illness.

The same mental illness and single minded determination that drove Adam Lanza's obsessive compulsion disorder.

I concur.

[Per]

The Swedish one is also odd:

We had a baby boom right after WWII, from 1945 to 1949.
They then had children in the latter half of the 1960’s and they in turn had children in the late 80’s, early 90’s.
These three clusters are quite

Thanks to that last cluster, we’re slightly better off than the Germans and Italians.
We’re also one of the European nations with the highest birth rate, presumably because of our subsidised day care and generous parental leave.


And finally, Canada:



Looks fairly European. Not as bad as Germany or Italy, but still problematic.

You need to either start having more children, increase immigration or raise the retirement age, or perhaps most likely a combination of all three.

[Per]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terenc ... o-our-kids

So at the age of 8, after seeing some no debunked climate alarmist pictures, young Greta's aspergers kicked in and launched her on a single minded obsession to fight climate change.

Her obsessive compulsive actions are a result of her mental illness.

The same mental illness and single minded determination that drove Adam Lanza's obsessive compulsion disorder.

I concur.

As I said, her Asperger’s definitely is part of her determined stance, but it’s good that the problems of climate change are getting more attention. Maybe the politicians will finally get their thumbs out of their asses and start doing something.

The concentration of CO2 is higher than ever before in the history of mankind, and sea levels are rising.
We need to address the elephant in the room.

[Strangelove]

Per, post a graph just One. More. Time.

Although I do wonder how those correspond to the abortion rate...

[Strangelove]

but it’s good that the problems of climate change are getting more attention. Maybe the politicians will finally get their thumbs out of their asses and start doing something.

The concentration of CO2 is higher than ever before in the history of mankind, and sea levels are rising.
We need to address the elephant in the room.

Earth to Per: Nothing can be done about climate change.

Oh it's true!