• k-rad
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    185 months ago

    Hey but at least a handful of people got to live it up

  • @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    “Virtual ghost towns” So is this like, a thing in the Sims? Or the Meta virtual whatchamacallit?

    • Flying Squid
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      95 months ago

      Please show evidence that contradicts this. Since it’s just doomerism, that should be easy for you.

      • @[email protected]
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        “Using population projections, we found that, by 2100, close to half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the United States will face some sort of population decline,”

        They drew straight lines and saw some were going down, and assumed everyone was just going to go to the suburbs over the next 80 years.

        This is a thought experiment, not a prediction.

        https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-023-00011-7

        • Flying Squid
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          85 months ago

          What you are saying goes completely against what I am reading apart from what you quoted. I don’t see the claim that everyone is going to go to the suburbs. First of all, you can go to a smaller town. Secondly, it says that some cities will see an increase in population.

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            "Simultaneously, increasing population trends in resource-intensive suburban and periurban cities will probably take away access to much needed resources in depopulating areas, further exacerbating their challenges. "

            Some cities will of course see an increase in population. It said half will go down, half will go up, approximately. The population is also increasing, which means also say an increase in the population in suburbia.