Comments by "effexon" (@effexon) on "The Western European Demographic Revolution." video.

  1. One thing is often forgotten when talked of europe: lot of wars had aspect of this ethnic,cultural division(be it language, religious differences, cultural differences even smaller ones), thus post WW2 was peaceful due to smart deals to keep this in mind (in africa this is often mentioned as big factor behind wars, but not in europe, which to me shows big hubris and ignorance of our history).
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  2. if your description of indians being tribal and voting their person happens in every other group and also stays in next 20-30 years(in US it doesnt seem to be that straightforward), canada is in trouble like sudan,ethiopia and many others. In ethiopia problem was described to be exactly this, people fear their rights are pushed down when other group is in power and other group can stay in power exactly coz population is bigger and thus guarantees votes with tribal voting "system".
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  3. @32:12 Ive long thought about this and come to somewhat conclusion europe population is what it can be sustained so WW2 baby boomers made a crack we still live in.. bringing in other people in mass scale just makes this wound last longer. Eg comparing europe to texas state of US, it is similar landarea but europe has 10x population. Then again china is way bigger than european land area, so comparison doesnt make sense. These simple facts are often forgotten. Eg Netherlands is already at its limits in many many ways coz it is tiny land area yet same population as sweden. Overall, central europe is very densely populated, at least in western side, im not as familiar with east europe, but poland with 40million+ with same landarea as germany and france is getting to their limits. To me as I understand economics and resources, this balances so that living gets more expensive coz europe has highly specialized societies with jobs requiring skills, secret to prosperity, but that also requires resources like schools etc (yes those need buildings, fuel , maintenance and qualified students)... so there is very delicate balance between these job groups to keep country prosperous... otherwise fate of east germany is waiting there where people want to flee and are miserable, also dont have kids like in many other eastern post soviet countries (right after soviet collapse). Also europe is pretty notoriously dependent on import raw materials in many critical aspects of life, making it comparable to japan, which has oil,energy,food import literally existential question for country. This is often forgotten by european intellectuals who travel to US and want to live in their dreams, forgetting US is fully self sufficient in these life basics (fuel,food, many materials).
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