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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by dirtyaura on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:39PM (#14383151)
Family size is generally going down everywhere, also in religious countries. Population growth is mainly because we live longer.

It's not a physical law, but still pretty well understood phenomenon: more likely your offsprings are going to survive, less likely you are going breed more of them.

Rosling also claimed that population growth projections have been very accurate for decades.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by thanksgiving on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:57AM (#14387075)
As "we" have fewer children and "they" continue to have more children, I'm not sure where the future is headed. I'm not saying Idiocracy levels but you have to wonder if the video is correct.

For example, what is erdogan thinking when he says Turks should have five or more children? I'd love to be able to read what's going on in people's heads. Personally, I couldn't give two (insert expletive) if my "culture and heritage" were to disappear or dissolve I to something new in fifty or a hundred years.

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