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2025-12-20 08:04 UTC
@painting_squirrel @greene There's a statistician called Hans Rosling that has given a TED talk on how live expectancy and child mortality rates feed into family size - long story short, the more likely kids are to live the smaller families get.
I always quite liked that fact because it meant that there was no conflict between helping people live longer, healther lives and addressing overpopulation.
I certainly hope that MAGAts haven't looked at that same insight and drawn a much darker conclusion.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2025-12-21 13:20
@StryderNotavi @painting_squirrel @greene > how live expectancy and child mortality rates feed into family size - long story short, the more likely kids are to live the smaller families get. This is old wisdom from the science of demographics. That, and girls reading books. Sadly, Hans Rosling died some years ago. I remember especially his washing machine video. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine