Peter Uetz

Associate professor, systems biology, #herpetology, #microbiology, #proteins @VCU

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@MichaelAArouet @franzmeier451 @grok Many of them work in finance, which probably explains much of it

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@MichaelAArouet Hardly any of these metrics have anything to do with quality of life

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@PaulWheat73 @MichaelAArouet There is no socialism in Europe as far as I know. There isn’t even socialism in China even this they call themselves communists.

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@MichaelAArouet @Karnickleon In most EU countries you simply don’t need AC and Americans have a pathological relationship with AC: walk into most US offices in the summer and you won’t die from heat shock but from freezing to death 🥶

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@MichaelAArouet Although not entirely wrong, it’s a stupid simplification: the US has already fallen apart because of their low taxes: sky-high debt and a poor underclass. More nuance please.

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@nunoluciano @MichaelAArouet Why would you maintain a certain population size? There is no objective reason that this is a good thing

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@MichaelAArouet Completely absurd prediction: first, rich European countries will have no problem attracting people from those failed states you predict to be in good shape - it’s unlikely they will be any time soon, given that their best-educated people will run away as quickly as they can

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@BrilliantMaps Assuming net-zero immigration is 100% unrealistic and thus plain dumb

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@UBERSOY1 Except that these time periods are completely irrelevant as far as projections go

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@MichaelAArouet @TheDataAP Which shows that GDP becomes increasingly meaningless. You cannot buy quality of life and happiness just by increasing GDP.

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@magattew Is quality of life better in the US than the EU? I would say no and that’s what matters. Looking only at GDP is simply dumb.

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@MichaelAArouet The birth rates have been low for decades, like in the US, but the population still keeps growing - go figure.

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@nikolaushaufler @ThomasPitt44325 China hat das einzig Richtige gemacht und die Geburten reguliert, auch wenn man sich über die Methoden streiten kann. Wo ist das Problem wenn China die Weltherrschaft verliert???

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@nikolaushaufler Seien wir mal ehrlich: Eltern haben Kinder aus Egoismus - sie wollen einfach Kinder! Kinderlose wollen keine. Die meisten jedenfalls. Im Moment haben wir (ökologisch gesehen) weltweit immer noch zu viele Kinder, auch wenn das in den Industriestaaten nachlässt. Und das ist gut so

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@nikolaushaufler Given the massive increase in immigration, there are already too many people in Germany, at least in terms of ecological footprint. The German government simply ignored the obvious solution: investment-based retirement plans.

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@WorldOfStats44 Great! Way to go!

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@VisualCap I wonder how much this has to do with „worker productivity“, e.g. with Luxembourg having next to no industry but a lot of financial services which generate high incomes but nothing tangible (especially when a lot of financial services are fully automated).

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@stats_feed I think what you are showing are average temperatures but not changes

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@stats_feed In the future, please include links to sources. This looks like ridiculously wrong.

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@TheSearch01 @stats_feed Why are done countries listed multiple times? Also, PPP makes little sense unless calculated per capita.