Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' by oblio on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:40AM (#28117471)

Every country in the developed world plus the former Warsaw pact members have negative natural population growth. They're being propped up by immigrants, that's why they're populations are growing. For example France has about 67 million people but the number of natives is estimated to be around 50 million. Which would be about their population in 1971, 50 years ago. Similar story with the UK, Switzerland, the US, etc. In Japan it's just visible because they have negligible immigration plus even lower birth rates.

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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' by pfdietz on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:20PM (#28122430)

Population is still growing in most countries.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

You have to scan down the list to #11 to find a country where the population is shrinking. And no, this cannot be due everywhere to immigration.

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Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' by oblio on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:57PM (#28123351)

I've counted. 235 countries and territories. 30 are downright decreasing.

Plus:

> As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.[2] Nonetheless most of these countries still have growing populations due to immigration, population momentum and increase of the life expectancy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

That was back in 2010 and fertility rates are only going down plus Covid has accelerated this so I'm willing to bet real money 50%+ of the world's population is living in countries with net natural population loss due to low fertility rates.

These things are very localized, look at the world map on that page to see where this growth is concentrated.

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