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Are world population numbers inflated? It could be made to make us think the world is overpopulated so we accept things like immigration, depopulation, climate change, etc.
Is there any way to use science to independently verify them?
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>16506263more, a little more serious
I doubt population numbers are cooked. That's kind of hard to do. Traditionally, having a higher population is viewed as a strength. Nations might want to lie about that in order to appear stronger but intelligence agencies can make guesses based on farming capacity and food imports as to how many people a nation is housing. GDP is much easier to fabricate and a few nations do that.
Governments are very hesitant to discredit each other, as they all know that sabotaging confidence in another nation is also self-sabotage with their own reputation. That gets people thinking.

Anyways, there's a few competing schools of thought about overpopulation. There's "cornucopians" that think supplies are endless for ever more people, and if not then technology will find a way. There's also end-of-world doomsayers and their positions may actually be more reasonable. These worldviews are drawn on right and left political lines in the USA respectively.

Eventually there might be a change of rhetoric where more unskilled laborers are seen as a liability but right now that's not the case. Beware technology changing your way of life, often it takes a lifetime to see the benefits reaped while the costs are paid in advance.
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>>16506271
>These worldviews are drawn on right and left political lines in the USA respectively.
In the 1960s maybe but not today.
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>>16506271
>I doubt population numbers are cooked.
you just don't want to admit that you were dumb enough to be tricked by them
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>>16506253
>>16507332

New Anon into the thread:
You didn't take your own census, you're not presenting us with any new information or findings that could contradict that census, there's literally no reason for you to be suspicious other than your gay ass dipshit faggot feelings. This is useless speculation based on literally nothing.

You didn't count anyone. You didn't do any science. You're not entitled to anything but name-calling.
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>>16506253

The numbers for all big cities are demonstrably false.
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>>16507344
>REEEEE UR WRONG BECAUSE I CALLED U A POOPY HEAD!!!!
why so butthurt?
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>>16506253
They're probably fake, same fags who are in charge of them fake all their other statistics in order to shill for their political agendas, why would they treat population numbers any differently?
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>>16506253
Census vs aproximations
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>>16509458
Right, they lie constantly about global warming you should expect they're lying about everything else too
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>>16510328
based, and its not just global warming they lie about, most modern science is a bunch of thinly veiled political agendas or just outright greed
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>>16510328
every single time they've predicted 'only x years left' they have been wrong, it has happened dozens and dozens of times and it has always been a lie
thats how you know global warming is fake
guaranteed there are others here with plenty more pics like picrel
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>>16506253
We could square the global pop and still be fine
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>>16512338
people who haven't run the numbers on agricultural productivity are too ignorant of the situation to realize that. plus adding CO2 to the atmosphere only makes farmland ever more productive, so whatever we produce this year will only increase next year. as it currently stands, 3 crops alone produce over 5000 calories per day per person for every person on the planet.
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We don't have so much people that is making just $2 a day... Unfortunately we have more that make less then $10 a day, and now $2 is $10.
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>>16512330
Theres million of pics like that
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This woman believes China's population is probably 900 million, not 1.4 billion like the government claims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcLM3502_8
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>>16514890
counting people as equal units is retarded anyway, chinks are all midgets while europeans are all twice as big and have much larger brains as well
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>>16515504
>europeans are all twice as big
Europeans are not 340+cm, it's like a 5 cm difference in height between the average Chinese and Angloid male at the moment and Chinese height is rapidly catching up as older generations pass on. Europeans have an average IQ of about 100 while average Chinese IQ is 104. Stop making stupid and embarrassing posts.
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>>16515535
humans are 3 dimensional
>chinese have high iq
no they don't
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>>16516588
If Chinese are so high IQ then why did they destroy their entire culture in order to remodel their country after western nations? If the Chinese were really smarter than the westerners then wouldn't the westerners be the ones following the lead of the Chinese?
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>>16506253
>overpopulated
the overpopulation meme is long dead, nobody believes in it anymore
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>>16507344
it do be like this
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>>16518598
Despite what some naive utopians will tell you, not all humans are created equal.
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>>16506253
>the world is over populated
>looks at Australia

The overpopulation scenario should have never been taken seriously. When you have countries like Australia and Canada barely populated.
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>>16507332
>you just don't want to admit that you were dumb enough to be tricked by them
>he thinks he is so intelligent and important, he is aware of some crazy conspiracies against him and it's just others who are too dumb to see it, not him creating a headcanon to make his pathetic life any significant because he would just rope himself otherwise
you amount to nothing, no one is intelligent enough to organize these conspiracies and you are just a pile of biodegradable matter not worth the effort anyway and that will still help society function and follow its rules, like the sheep you are
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>>16506253
you're onto something my kekkistani brother we mvst breed more slaves for zaddy elon
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>>16506253
>It could be made to make us think the world is overpopulated so we accept things like immigration, depopulation, climate change, etc.

fucking idiot just look at google earth, there is not more land to put crops in, its all humans with the exceptions being the himalainas, amazon forest and africa
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>>16506253
This is literally the plot to that movie, Don't Look Up.

Kill yourself idiot
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>>16510328
how will gaby hinsliff ever recover?
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>>16519843
you're herby invited to move in central australia (you won't)
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>>16520315
>fucking idiot just look at google earth
Looking at google earth can lead to different conclusions: there where videos comparing the reported demographics of towns with what towns actually look like. These kind of videos have been scrubbed off the internet.
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>>16520658
central australia is relatively uninhabited by humans because the government has made it that way via legislation, you can't kill and eat the animals, can't dig wells or harvest any other moisture or build irrigation structures, just about everything necessary for survival is illegal. it would be populated otherwise
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>>16521252
>oy! you got a loiycense for that civilization, m8?
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>>16509458
Really makes you wonder how bad crime statistics would look if they didn't use all sorts of tricks to try and minimize the unbalanced racial aspects of them
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>>16519843
>the world is over populated
>thats why the european nations with the highest population density need more immigrants
>also japan needs more immigrants because overpopulation is so bad
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>>16506253
The world is overpopulated.
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>>16506271
>Governments are very hesitant to discredit each other,
Want to know how we can tell you are full of shit?
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>>16524219
so why haven't you killed yourself to help alleviate the problem yet?
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>>16506253
As a brain in a cerebrospinal fluid vat, it's not possible to experience billions of other people. It's the most comforting statistic: the best of all possible worlds, if you will.

The counts per county should follow Benford's law, but even if you convince others that the numbers are cooked, you won't get political power. The bald faced lies are for demoralization, but the actual effect is up to you.
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>>16524871
I'm quality over quantity.
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>>16510328
>>16511286
>>16512330
>>16514316
>journos love alarmist retards
>therefore science is false
Should we discount all economists and military advisors too? We regularly hear from them about how nuclear destruction and economic collapse are totally just around the corner guys please be scared and give us more money and publications.
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>>16524126
>>thats why the european nations with the highest population density need more immigrants
Oy vey.
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>>16524871
Not an arguement.
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>>16526238
yes it is
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>>16528142
TSMT
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>>16526077
>Should we discount all economists and military advisors too?
yes, they're all just part of the same globohomo goyslop zog structure
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>>16531473
What are your chances of living past the year once your parents stop housing you?
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>>16525543
>Benford's law
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>>16533325
Benford's law doesn't work in elections bro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78
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>>16533341
why not?
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>>16534745
Because it doesn't dovetail with my personal political beliefs
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>>16506253
just go on google earth. there's a shit ton of people in northern india, indonesia, nigeria etc. they have an all year growing season and get by on so little
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>>16535859
>muh wages
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>>16506253
Of course they're inflated.
They're counting niggers and pajeets as people.
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>>16510328
>>16514316
>the guardian as a source of scientific information
anon please behave
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>>16506271
>about that in order to appear stronger but intelligence agencies can make guesses based on farming capacity and food imports as to how many people a nation is housing.
yeah assuming there's such a department and not some ghost department regurgitating the CIA book.
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>>16533341
Did you even watch the video or are you so retarded you can't understand shit?
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>>16536069
/thread
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>>16517683
If you are so high IQ then why did you copy Chinese inentions like toilet paper gun powder and the printing press?
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>>16519728
that'd be some fucking good news if only it were true
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>>16519806
you really think all these africans will survive?
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>>16537433
>inventions
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>>16537433
>toilet paper gun powder
ouch



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