radon1 wrote:Interesting graph
onlooker wrote:Spot on Ennui. We have been and are continuing in denial mode. See the Archdruid Report as Greer now has some interesting comments about this.
radon1 wrote:Interesting graph
C8 wrote:This isn't a scientific chart- its propaganda.
Newfie wrote:I wonder why the big dip about 1960?
Newfie wrote:Dooh!
I was thinking the WWII drop would be in 1942.
ennui2 wrote:C8 wrote:This isn't a scientific chart- its propaganda.
Fine. Don't like the chart? Think there's some cabal of scientists trying to brainwash us? Offer your own armchair prediction.
Strummer wrote:Newfie wrote:Dooh!
I was thinking the WWII drop would be in 1942.
It's important to realize the graph shows the growth rate and the dip in 1960 is only there relative to the growth rate skyrocketing in the postwar years.
The graph shows a clear decline in growth rate during WWII, and it's exactly that drop which then caused the drop in 1960 (the time when the generations that were supposed to be born during the war were supposed to have kids themselves). And don't forget that the drop during WWII is vastly underestimated on the graph, as hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of the kids born during the war did not survive it.
Newfie wrote:I can't find a good source for this damn graph.
A denier site credits the 1962 drop to China's Great Leap Forward.
ennui2 wrote:[ Why? Because doomers need to be a killjoy, and there's no better target for being a killjoy than to go after anything that might actually be a source of optimism.
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