• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    you would expect the young to outnumber the old

    Kinda depends on how you define the two cohorts.

    We’re also overlooking a seminal moment in history where

    • Vaccinations
    • Nitrogen rich fertilizer
    • Fossil fuels
    • A sixty year long people of relative global peace

    All came online at about the same time, radically improving human life expectancy over two generations.

    As a point of comparison, the county of Tibet had an average life expectancy of 35 in the 1920s and 72 in the 2020s.

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      1 day ago

      Ooooh I saw a video about what the government of China did in Tibet in the 1940s.

      Im not saying that the Chinese people are heroes or paragons nowadays or anything like that but I was shocked .