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  Excellent
context: Those two countries (China and India) make up 35% of the entire planet's population.  That's crazy. >
  
  And 70% of downtown Toronto! >
  
  There's a lot of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh in that. >
  
  Nah man, there is only Chinese and Indian.  If you are Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, Pilipino, Thai, you are all Chinese.  If you are Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Bangladeshis, then you are all Indian. >
  
  Taiwanese are actually really chinese ethnically, same language, same culture, etc >
  
  Bro seriously? >
  
  He’s right, but the Taiwanese don’t like being associated with the communists up north, to such an extreme degree that they don’t consider themselves Chinese.
  Even though that’s not true at all, period.
  Cultural difference is about on the same level as Russia and Ukraine, which is to say… not too different.
  Only significant difference is in political philosophy. >
  
  Isn't there a small subsection of their population that are actually indigenous Taiwanese that aren't the same folks that ran from the mainland? >
  
  Yes, indigenous taiwanese are different >
  
  And India is like 1/3rd the size of China! >
  
  A lot of China is fairly uninhabitable though. You’ve got the Tibetan plateau in the southwest, the taklamakan desert in the west and the Gobi desert in the north. 
  Roughly 80% of their population lives in an area just a bit larger than India. >
  
  That sounds really crowded! 
  I remember in the civilization games, if your cities were too crowded, your people would become enraged. 
  "It's too crowded!" "There's not enough ROOM!" 
  It was pretty funny. Even had little angry faces for angry population. >
  
  South Asia is definitely still the worst in that regard. The densest populated state in America, NJ, has a density of 488km2. 
  Bangladesh has a density of 1328km2. >
  
  It's funny how Bangladesh has more people than Russia and Russia is like 50 times bigger, if not more. >
  
  Russia is 114 times the size of Bangladesh, and has 26 million less people >
  
  I was going to say 100, but was insecure due to mercator and changed it to 50 lmao.
  Thank you though, I was hoping someone would point out the actual number. >
  
  Glad to see someone aware of map distortion. The Mercator projection is fantastic for direction, terrible for comparing area. >
  
  I remember when I was a kid looking at Greenland and being baffled at the size of the thing only to be disappointed when looking at a globe for the first time lmao. >
  
  I had no idea this was even coming. Wow. >
  
  It was confirmed last year with the UN as soon as they found a target date for humanity surpassing the 8 billion mark (Nov 15, 2022). >
  
  They say population will "even out" around 10 billion.  Even if that is true that is 25% increase from here.
  You think food is a lot now?
  You think housing is a lot now?
  Not to mention we know places like India with higher populations and climate changes are going to be even more dystopian than they are now.
  We have changed so much of our landscapes into crop production.
  We have destroyed almost all the biodiversity on this earth.
  Hopefully we can learn this lesson and limit the insane downspiral of quality of life and affordability of life that is going to come in the next few decades or else we are going to see more insane rises of political extremism and other social shit from sheer alienation, frustration, of huge segments of the population.
  We need to get ahead of this shit.  
  Just like we should have gotten ahead of world populations and climate change. >
  
  doomer posting, people grow food, people build houses. >
  
  World population could fit in Texas >
  
  Well, at an insanely high density >
  
  For some reason, I was under the impression they already had >
  
  I've seen some articles speculating that China has been overestimating their population numbers for years, and that India likely surpassed them some time ago. No idea how credible that line of reasoning is though. >
  
  There surely has to be an algorithm for Communist exaggeration by now. I swear every time I watch a documentary on the Soviets I hear something else that makes me say, "Really? They fudged the numbers on that?" >
  
  OH YEAH?!! invades Taiwan >
  
  *Proceeds to cost more lives than are gained. >
  
  Even if they capture it without firing a single shot, they. Are. Fucked. Still the biggest importers of food and energy and now they're dealing with the pandemic, with vaccines that don't work and a population that's been locked up for 3 years and has built up no immunity. >
  
  Is that you Peter Zeihan? >
  
  Zeihan is blowing up lately. Found a keynote of his on YouTube at a Iowa agricultural convention a couple months back and next thing I know he's on Rogan scaring the shit out of people. >
  
  When will we see the slow down of India's population and reproduction rates, like in China? >
  
  India is now below replacement levels for births. It's only Africa that is above replacement level.
  From the Wall Street Journal: 
  
  India has long been a byword for overpopulation, but this is about to change. According to a new national survey, India’s total fertility rate, the average number of children a woman will bear during her lifetime, has fallen to 2—below the replacement level of 2.1 for the first time.