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The Environment / Re: The link between global warming and world population expansion.
« on: 08/04/2024 10:24:00 »Yes i get the idea, but in 2 generations for a couple of new born child rearing age there would be 8 grand parents who would be retired and 4 parents who although not retired would be most probably 50 plus. That would be 6 people of working age for 9 non workers. (they could all possibly be unemployed)2 generations, say 40 years. Average age of the working population is 40 so the average worker will already have lost half of his grandparents assuming a life expectancy of 80.
The simple fact is that there are roughly twice as many people aged 20 - 60 than aged 60 - 100. That's the meaning of "life expectancy", and the reason that tax-funded pensions work at all!
Properly organised, an MRI scan should cost the NHS less than ?150, but thanks to Thatcher and Blair, it's about twice that.
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