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These Will Be The World's Next Megacities: By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020
Nation and State ^
| 01/21/2023
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 01/21/2023 7:07:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Fungi
RE: Tyler Durden is a nebulous man, if that is what he is. He’s been roaming around websites trying to find a home.
Any comments on the CONTENT of this particular post of his?
To: PittsburghAfterDark
Chinese want to live there...
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:04:40 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
This whole thing is a load of massive e bullsh!t probably dreamed up by the same jackasses who are pushing travel restricting EVs as the solution to non-exist anthropomorphic global warming
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:06:14 PM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
To: Fiji Hill
None of these panned out. That depends on how you look at it. Thomas Jefferson would be surprised and appalled at how urban the New York to Philadelphia corridor (stretching out beyond those cities in both directions) is. What the futurologists missed was that most of the cities growth would be outside of the three megalopolises, but it was a great surprise for anyone who'd grown up earlier in the last century to see the first pictures from space.
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:10:54 PM PST
by
x
To: Fiji Hill
I meant to say, “most of the country’s growth.”
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:14:40 PM PST
by
x
To: Jane Long
Know that, but he is still nebulous....
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:16:19 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Qwapisking
where will the food to feed these hordes come from?
To: Seaplaner
Lots of oil and gas here. Don’t need more la people
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:20:28 PM PST
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: SeekAndFind
So people aren’t going to be flocking to the Masters of the Universe 15 Minute Cities?
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:36:02 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
To: SeekAndFind
They say this as if cities were good places to live.
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:40:04 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: SeekAndFind
As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, urbanization takes place because of both push and pull factors. The IEA describes how in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital of Kinshasa, factors pushing people away from rural areas include issues of violence and a general lack of security, the presence of criminal groups, lack of policing, ecological degradation, and the fact there are too many people for the available agricultural land. Meanwhile, a pull factor could be the attraction of an increase in the standard of living.They expect us to believe this?
Rural violence and lack of policing is pushing people into cities? Seriously?
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:42:49 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: Fungi
I was addressing your ‘He’s been roaming around websites trying to find a home’ statement.
He’s/they’ve been at Zero Hedge since, what, day one?
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:43:14 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
To: SeekAndFind
In another unrelated article I saw a map projecting mega cities in the USA. One surprised me intensely, they were projecting one to grow starting somewhere up around Central Michigan , south and East towards Cleveland Ohio, spreading down across much of the East 1/2 of the state state then towards Cincinnati. From there one little finger stretched out and connected with louisville where it ended. Another odd finger stretches SW and connects to St Louis. Truly huge. All this talk about population collapse I think is silly. Even though some of it comes from Jordan Paterson who I greatly admire in most subjects. The 3rd world nations populations are still exploding and this new no border nation we live in assures they will move here and more than make up for the low birth rates.
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:44:37 PM PST
by
Phoenix8
To: Phoenix8
Oops wrong map:
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posted on
01/21/2023 8:46:35 PM PST
by
Phoenix8
To: SeekAndFind
The American Western interior is the place to be if you want to avoid "megacities." There won't be any of them run the interior west for a long, long time.
The American Westering Interior (east of the Cascades/Sierra Nevada and west of the 99th Meridian) is 1/3 of the land area of the USA (almost the size of the EU) with less than 10% of the population (30 million).
That 30 million is roughly the size of the greater New York metro area (25M)!
Of that 30 million, one-third live in three cities: Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver. If you take out the next five largest cities in this area (El Paso, Tucson, Boise, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque), the vast area is home to less than 15 million people.
It is peaceful and free here.
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posted on
01/21/2023 9:02:23 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
To: Round Earther
To: SeekAndFind
Cool Y’all have fun. I’m in Central America, living in a country that doesn’t even have ONE “megacity”.
I kinda like it that way.
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posted on
01/21/2023 9:34:09 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
To: SeekAndFind
I read some of William Gibson’s science fiction as a kid. His cyberpunk novels featured BAMA (Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis) aka the Sprawl, a mega city stretching from New England to Dixie. Pretty heady stuff forty years ago.
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posted on
01/21/2023 9:41:07 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(#notmypedophile)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
My response exactly! Who wants to move to a northern, flat land city on the edge of cold lake that with heavy winds and snow? It is an ugly city in an ugly part of the country full of ugly, corrupt liberals. I don’t even want to visit, no way you could pay me enough to live there.
To: PittsburghAfterDark
"Chicago? On what planet do millions want to move there???" No one is moving there. All the savages who already inhabit that cesspool are funded with tax dollars to overbreed.
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posted on
01/21/2023 10:14:05 PM PST
by
10mm
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