Some hefty assumptions going on there, in both scenarios.
Who says lower populations are necessarily bad. We could retitle the graph to say ‘impact on planet’ with and without, or ‘or total resource consumption’ with and without,, or ‘wildlife populations’ with and without ….. Or ‘housing affordability’ with and without….I wonder what people would think then?
stopbanningmeorelse on
Another problem with this is it assumes immigration will continue to those countries after they’ve been destroyed by immigration.
Radiant-Trade-4161 on
Well, migration can be helpful if the people immigrating have a certain level of education and are able to and want to sustain themselves.
I think we all can agree on that?
There’s no advantage in mass immigration of uneducated people.
BlackberryVisible238 on
Please try to remember that gradual population decline is a good thing for the sustainability of the species.
Wawawanow on
That slider really needs to be the other way around.
Mrod2162 on
That’s why Musk and the nativists want to stop immigration and force native born people to have more kids. It’s important to them to maintain native population growth.
-scuzzlebutt- on
Guardian is a progressive rag. Immigration is ruining the EU, except Hungary and Poland.
Justaredditorelse on
We need to start taxing those who decide not having children.
Frency2 on
I’d be so happy if our population decreased. I think we’re way too many. We should leave some space to nature and other animals as well, and for me we shouldn’t be more than 4 billion people areound the globe.
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Some hefty assumptions going on there, in both scenarios.
Who says lower populations are necessarily bad. We could retitle the graph to say ‘impact on planet’ with and without, or ‘or total resource consumption’ with and without,, or ‘wildlife populations’ with and without ….. Or ‘housing affordability’ with and without….I wonder what people would think then?
Another problem with this is it assumes immigration will continue to those countries after they’ve been destroyed by immigration.
Well, migration can be helpful if the people immigrating have a certain level of education and are able to and want to sustain themselves.
I think we all can agree on that?
There’s no advantage in mass immigration of uneducated people.
Please try to remember that gradual population decline is a good thing for the sustainability of the species.
That slider really needs to be the other way around.
That’s why Musk and the nativists want to stop immigration and force native born people to have more kids. It’s important to them to maintain native population growth.
Guardian is a progressive rag. Immigration is ruining the EU, except Hungary and Poland.
We need to start taxing those who decide not having children.
I’d be so happy if our population decreased. I think we’re way too many. We should leave some space to nature and other animals as well, and for me we shouldn’t be more than 4 billion people areound the globe.