#depopulation — Public Fediverse posts

The city of Osaki, in Miyagi Prefecture, is bracing for a uncertain future as its population continues to decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/04/japan/society/japan-miyagi-municipal-merger-depopulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #miyagi #depopulation #schools #tourism #onsen

The EU population is to fall by 12% by 2100: Which countries are most affected?

Projected population changes across Europe vary significantly, with the EU population set to fall by 53 million by 2100.

Experts point to the role of immigration in explaining differences between countries.

By 2100, one in three Europeans will be over 65.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260420-the-eu-population-is-to-fall-by-12-by-2100-which-countries-are-most-affected?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #Depopulation #FertilityRate #Population #Demographics #Migration #EU

The National Police Agency has issued structural reform guidelines to address the challenges of maintaining public safety as crimes become more specialized and international and amid population decline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/02/japan/crime-legal/police-structural-reform-promotion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #depopulation #cybersecurity #fraud

In a picturesque seaside town, abandoned homes have become a canvas for a community revitalization project bringing together local and global talents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2026/03/23/issues/onomichi-labyrinth-house-akiya-renovation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #onomichi #hiroshima #akiya #depopulation #shimanamikaido

The former head of Japan's $2 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is now working as an adviser for agricultural investments as the sector faces a rapidly aging and shrinking workforce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/06/ex-chief-gpif-tomato-developer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #gpif #hulic #vegetables #fruit #agriculture #pensionfunds #aging #depopulation

Wine, Apples, and Air: Yamagata’s Asahi Town Comes to Tokyo

Asahi Town, near the centre of Yamagata Prefecture, is about 70% forest and is known for its apples and wine. In February, the town held an exchange event in Tokyo titled “An Evening to Connect with Asahi Town, Yamagata,”…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #airshrine #asahitown #culture #depopulation #j2e #japan2earth #ruraljapan #shrines
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2539232/wine-apples-and-air-yamagatas-asahi-town-comes-to-tokyo/

Wine, Apples, and Air: Yamagata’s Asahi Town Comes to Tokyo https://www.diningandcooking.com/2539232/wine-apples-and-air-yamagatas-asahi-town-comes-to-tokyo/ #AirShrine #AsahiTown #culture #depopulation #j2e #Japan2Earth #RuralJapan #shrines #Wine

Government rejects Tirah Valley ‘depopulation’ claims

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1441399/government-rejects-tirah-valley-depopulation-claims/

Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems

Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters s…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #automateddriving #automatedtransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #japanesetrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains
https://www.alojapan.com/1438697/driverless-trains-on-the-horizon-as-japan-trials-automation-systems/

Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems

Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters s…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #automateddriving #automatedtransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #japanesetrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains
https://www.alojapan.com/1438697/driverless-trains-on-the-horizon-as-japan-trials-automation-systems/

https://www.alojapan.com/1438697/driverless-trains-on-the-horizon-as-japan-trials-automation-systems/ Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems #AutomatedDriving #AutomatedTransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseTrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters such as JR East and JR Kyushu, private railway companie

https://www.alojapan.com/1438697/driverless-trains-on-the-horizon-as-japan-trials-automation-systems/ Driverless Trains on the Horizon as Japan Trials Automation Systems #AutomatedDriving #AutomatedTransport #automation #Depopulation #DriverlessTrains #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseTrains #JREast #JRKyushu #news #Shinkansen #trains Railway operators across Japan are moving forward with plans to introduce automated trains on both conventional lines and the Shinkansen. Following early adopters such as JR East and JR Kyushu, private railway companie

‘The answer is dig a hole’: why Scotland’s islanders want tunnels instead of ferries.

From Shetland to the Western Isles, campaigners argue ageing ferries are driving depopulation – and undersea tunnels are the only 21st-century solution.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260102-the-answer-is-dig-a-hole-why-scotlands-islanders-want-tunnels-instead-of-ferries?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Scotland #UK #Infrastructure #Transport #Ferries #Tunnels #Shetland #WesternIsles #Depopulation

In a model project by the internal affairs ministry, municipalities in the countryside are collaborating with university students from urban areas in order to leverage young people's ideas for regional revitalization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/02/japan/society/rural-municipalities-students/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #localgovernment #students #wakayama #ehime #depopulation

Japan’s efforts to to halt rural depopulation and revive its countryside have failed because jobs alone are insufficient, requiring a broader focus on quality of life, productivity and realistic population goals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/12/26/japans-regional-revitalization-policy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #depopulation #japaneseeconomy #meti #robots #localgovernment #rurallife #tech

The education ministry plans to establish a fund for high school education reform in each of the 47 prefectures, totaling some ¥300 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/japan/high-school-reform-funds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #highschools #mext #education #depopulation #students

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has set up a support organization, in cooperation with local governments, to accelerate robot adoption by small and midsize enterprises in rural areas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/companies/rural-companies-robots/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #meti #robots #manufacturing #depopulation #localgovernment

The deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department urged Japan to formulate a concrete plan for fiscal consolidation, adding a consumption tax cut should be avoided. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/24/economy/imf-japan-fiscal-health/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #imf #jgb #japaneseeconomy #depopulation

A series of recent scandals has brought to light deeply entrenched and problematic business practices within the nonlife insurance industry in Japan, creating pressure to overhaul the long-standing business model. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/22/companies/nonlife-insurers-business-model/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #insurance #bigmotor #depopulation #tokiomarine #msad

In the face of rural decline, Yukio Iokibe’s documentary is a quiet tribute to how democracy endures — through personal conviction and human connection. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/20/film/noto-democracy-documentary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #documentary #yukioiokibe #ishikawa #earthquakes #notopeninsula #depopulation

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/population-climate-progress.html

There is this absolutely #weird #obsession with #population #degrowth when #global #poor are left to die in the #heatwave #drought #flood #storm #hurricane #starvation all the time by the #oligarchy #plutocracy #billionaires

First #save the #orphans around the world before talking about #depopulation #fertilityrates etc.

#climate #climatechange #climateaction #climatecrisis #justice #equality #adaptation #migration #humanrights #equity

Reversing the tide of urbanisation: Spain seeks to repopulate rural villages.

Spain's countryside is the most depopulated in Europe. Some villages have just one resident left in them.

But locals are fighting back, determined to attract new inhabitants.

FRANCE 24's Maude Petit-Jové and Maxime Bergeron report from two Spanish villages that are managing to turn the tide of urbanisation.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250625-reversing-the-tide-of-urbanisation-spain-seeks-to-repopulate-rural-villages?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Spain #Countryside #Depopulation #Repopulation #Urbanisation #Demographics

And it [Ukraine’s economic potential ] was significant, including a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocket production, instrumentation, and world-class scientific, design, and engineering schools. Having received this heritage, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy will become one of the leading and the standard of living will be one of the highest in Europe.

Today the industrial hi-tech giants that once made Ukraine and the whole country proud are lying on their sides. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering has fallen by 42 percent. The scale of deindustrialization and overall degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the production of electricity, which for 30 years in Ukraine has fallen by almost half. Finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, Ukraine’s per capita GDP was less than $4,000. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.
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А он [экономический потенциал] у Украины был значительным, включал мощную инфраструктуру, газотранспортную систему, передовые отрасли судостроения, авиастроения, ракетостроения, приборостроения, научные, конструкторские, инженерные школы мирового уровня. Получив такое наследие, лидеры Украины, объявляя о независимости, обещали, что украинская экономика станет одной из ведущих, а уровень жизни людей одним из самых высоких в Европе.

Сегодня промышленные высокотехнологичные гиганты, которыми некогда гордились и Украина, и вся страна, лежат на боку. За последние 10 лет выпуск продукции машиностроения упал на 42 процента. Масштаб деиндустриализации и в целом деградации экономики виден по такому показателю, как выработка электроэнергии, которая за 30 лет на Украине сократилась практически вдвое. И наконец, по данным МВФ, в 2019 году, ещё до эпидемии коронавируса, уровень подушевого ВВП Украины составил меньше 4 тысяч долларов. Это ниже Республики Албании, Республики Молдовы и непризнанного Косова. Украина сейчас – беднейшая страна Европы.
#lang_ru

Ukraine is rapidly going downhill and the collapse of its shipbuilding industry is the best proof of it. The country, which received a fantastic inheritance from the USSR, managed to squander it in just three decades. The people making decisions have spit on the great past, in which aircraft carriers were built, and now Turkey will build warships for them.

Украина стремительно катится вниз и крах ее судостроительной отрасли — лучшее тому доказательство. Страна, получившая от СССР просто фантастическое наследство, умудрилась растранжирить его за какие-то три десятка лет. Люди, принимающие решения, плюнули на великое прошлое, в котором строились авианосцы, и теперь боевые корабли для них будет строить Турция.

While Japan is allowing more underperforming businesses to fail, the accounts suggest the worker shortage is threatening firms that are otherwise robust, including those that have invested in automation and creative hiring. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/24/japan/japan-labor-crunch-small-town/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #depopulation #jobs #rurallife #ino #kochi

The article below appeared in Foreign Affairs, and it has received a fair share of attention.

The basic message is:

* fertility is is declining all over the world, and births are below population replacement rates in most countries
* we don't know what's causal, but it correlates with how many children women *wish* to have more than with the wealth of a nation
* competition for skilled immigrants will rise

#depopulation #worldpopulation #future

https://taizihuang.github.io/ForeignAffairs/html/age-depopulation-surviving-world-gone-gray-nicholas-eberstadt.html

#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange

(14/n)

...the #LittleIceAge?👈
And was that a result of “natural forces” or because of the “large-scale #depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession...”?!?

The authors say their study shows that the “global carbon budget of...

@mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange

(13/n)

...However, save the best for last:

For this, we have to go back to the original research paper 1):

"The paper explores a big question:

👉Did the invasion and #depopulation of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries result in the decline in temperatures,...

1)
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/02/13/how-colonization-of-the-americas-killed-90-percent-of-their-indigenous-people-and-changed-the-climate

@mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

While Wednesday marks four months since a massive earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in central Japan on New Year's Day, local residents are facing a tough decision: whether to leave or remain in the quake-hit areas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/01/japan/society/noto-quake-survivors-tough-choice-whether-to-remain/ #japan #society #earthquakes #ishikawaearthquake #wajima #elderly #depopulation

South Bridge Public School; the thread about the ups, downs and uncertain future of an inner-city educational establishment

It was in the news this weekend that there is the potential forced loss of accommodation for long-sitting community groups and public services from Edinburgh’s South Bridge Resource Centre to make way for a new multi-million pound home for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society means that it’s a good time for a thread on the history of what is the former South Bridge Public School itself. This gives us a useful case study of 150 years of inner city social and economic change in the city’s Old Town.

South Bridge Public School was opened by Edinburgh School Board on 2nd November 1886, with the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, then the Secretary of State for Scotland, formally cutting the ribbon. It was designed by the Board’s architect, Robert Wilson, in the Collegiate Gothic style then favoured and cost £7,942 to build, with the total cost of the project including land purchase, staffing etc. being £14,500, which was borrowed from the Scotch Education Department. It had an opening roll of 1,170 children (although not all attended at once); at this time the ESB was falling over itself at this time to build schools to meet the demands of the 1872 act which made Education in Scotland compulsory (but not free!) and a booming inner-city population. It was the first Board school to consist solely of classrooms; prior to this a mixture of school rooms and class rooms had been employed, with various innovative systems of partitions to subdivide spaces as required into smaller teaching spaces. Three infant rooms on the ground floor which could be opened together with partitions, with older children on the first floor.

The Head master was Mr Paterson, who transferred from North Canongate School, the head mistress being Miss Brander (also of that establishment), the first assistant Mr Johnston (Canongate too) and the singing-master, Mr Sneddon. The Board also provided evening classes here under Mr Robert Williamson MA, for those seeking personal advancement but also children who could not attend during the day as they were working. As well as a core curriculum, subjects such as shorthand, drawing, bookkeeping etc. were offered to “young men and lads“. Education at this time was segregated (with separate boys and girls classes, playgrounds and school entrances. If you’ve ever been in one of these old Board schools, you’ll know that there’s a curious double arrangement of internal stairs – this was to keep boys and girls separated when moving around the school). Women and girls were offered similar evening classes at this time at Bruntsfield and Torphicen Street schools, and could also take dressmaking, fancy and plain needlework and cookery.

As well as keeping boys and girls apart, the architect struggled to accommodate such a large school on a confined site. This had been bought by the ESB off of the Town Council from the site of the town’s Fever Hospital, which was the original Royal Infirmary building and as well as being constrained by space it was north facing (poor for natural lighting) and hemmed in on all sides which was poor for ventilation.

The school was co-located with the Infirmary Street Public Baths, built at the same time, which were the first such public facility in the city (and the only Victorian public bath in Edinburgh not to survive – its empty shell was later re-purposed as the Dovecot Studios). When the school opened, it was ESB‘s first organised purely on the classroom basis. Prior to this, they had used the schoolroom layout, with a small number of large teaching rooms and classes (more like lecture theatres) overseen by a single teacher with help from assistant teachers and “pupil assistants” drawn from the most able of the older students, with smaller rooms off this large space for separated tuition. But just to be sure, the partitions between the classrooms at South Bridge were sliding to allow the spaces to be combined together for this more traditional style of education.

The school was built to relieve overcrowding at the new Bristo (Marshall Street), St. Leonards (Forbes Street) and Causewayside public schools. Milton House and Castlehill schools would also be built in the Old Town in the next decade, allowing most of the older, smaller Heriot Trust schools that the Board had inherited to be closed and sold off. An exception was Davie Street which served the Pleasance district that was retained and expanded as a Board school.

The first Headmaster at South Bridge was Mr Paterson, who transferred from North Canongate school, the headmistress Miss Brander (also of that establishment), the first assistant Mr Johnston (Canongate too) and the singing-master, Mr Sneddon (not from Canongate). The school could not keep up with demand and was enlarged in 1892. In 1905-6 an entirely new school was built next door on Drummond Street. for the infant department, with junior schooling staying at South Bridge. The Board’s architect, John Carfrae, used a Renaissance style as favoured in London and exploited the difference in height between Drummond Street and Infirmary Street to make ita full 3 storeys, for reasons of economy.

In 1907, James Buchanan Tait – aged 13 – received a medal and award for 8 years of perfect attendance at the shool. His older brother William had made it to 9½ years previously and had also received a medal. His sister Marion (11), Robert (9), Christian (7) and Sophia (6) also had perfect attendance at this time. In 1913, his mother recoeved a gold brooch from Dr Shoolbread of the School Board in honour of her eight children’s 60 years total perfect attendance (regarded by the Edinburgh Evening News as a world record). They had also set perfect attendance record at Sunday School and the Good Templar Juvenile lodge. For this, educational publisher George Newnes & Sons of London had presented the family with a crystal clock.

The need for education continued to grow in the Old Town and Southside, peaking around 1911 when there were 13 primary schools in the district with a total roll of around 10,000 children (for context, now there are 2 – Royal Mile and Preston Street with a combined roll of 430).

The children of South Bridge came from poor households but were generous. In 1915, they gave concerts raising £27 to sponsor 2 hospital beds in Rouen in France. In 1930 they contributed £20 to the construction of the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion at the Royal Infirmary. In 1943 they contributed £410 for a Wings for Victory wartime savings drive (for reference, a production Spitfire aircraft cost between £9-9,500 at this time). When headmaster Robert H. Tait (no relation to the children with perfect attendance) retired in 1932 after 10 years in charge (and 43 in total teaching), his pupils bought him a walnut writing bureau!. (The teachers presented him with an armchair and the cleaners a smoker’s cabinet).

At this time, the combined South Bridge / Drummond Street school was the largest primary school in the city, with 1,271 children on the roll and an annual budget of £12,850. The infant head mistress Catherine M. Watson retired in 1936 after 40 years service, 35 at South Bridge / Drummond Street; Miss Margaret Bliss from Leith Links school replaced her. Tait was replaced by William J. S. Little, vice president of the EIS education union in Scotland. He oversaw the institution of a “Continuation School” at South Bridge, where children leaving Primary education but not destined for Secondary or Higher education could take up classes to prepare them for whatever their futures held.

The school celebrated its 50 year jubilee in 1938, the school installed a wireless set to mark the occasion and collected £20 towards the cost of buying a cinema projector. Headmaster Little was very aware of the socio-economic circumstances faced by the pupils at his school and how they impacted their education and life outcomes. He raised this the Justice of the Peace Court in 1938 when it was discussing the approaches to dealing with delinquency. During WW2, the socio-economic conditions faced by pupils became very apparent. In response a welfare committee – the South Bridge School Care Committee – was established in 1941 by Miss Handasyde of the Edinburgh University Settlement. This was modeled on successful schemes in London to look after problems faced by children in the district such as absenteeism, delinquency and nutrition. It is what we might now call a multi-agency partnership, with education, medical and public health professionals working together in an attempt to take the place of the dreaded Attendance Officers.

After the war, despite not having a pitch (or any grass at all!) of their own, the South Bridge School team won the 1949-50 School Board Trophy. Tommy Millar, front right, would go on to played 209 caps at fullback for Dundee United. His brother Jimmy (not shown) scored 91 goals in 197 games for Rangers. Another famous former pupil is the ballet dancer Roddie Patrizio (b. 1969).

But the world was changing fast in the Old Town at this time (indeed, it had been since the first big wave of 1920s slum clearances, which had seen five Board primary schools close as they were no longer neccessary, see the table at the bottom of the page for details). In 1951 it was the turn of Castle Hill Primary School to close, becoming a central school of catering and bakery. Most of its pupils displaced to South Bridge, where depopulation already meant that there was surplus capacity there to completely accommodate the roll of the closing school.

In 1952, South Bridge school took part in the first ever Fulbright Scholarship teacher exchange. Elementary school teacher Retta W. Dillon from Noyes, Washington DC, swapped places with Miss Margaret Brownlee from South Bridge. An unusual evening class began to be offered in 1954, when the Edinburgh and District Referees Association opened a school of refereeing!

The school was modernised in 1959 to keep it open – new regulations about toilets meant they now could no longer be outside and all had to be flushing and have hot water for hand washing. This saw some other city schools closed or rebuilt at the time, e.g. Fort Street in Leith. But not even new toilets could stop the forces of urban demographic change. as the inner city continued to be forcably cleared. When South Bridge’s headmaster retired in 1961 he lamented the loss of the “personal touch” of such schools, as communities were dispersed out to the new housing schemes at The Inch and Gracemount. South Bridge, he said, had a reputation as “the Friendly School“.

By 1970 the Drummond Street building was surplus to requirements, so St. Patricks RC school was moved there from St. John’s Hill to allow that district to be cleared. It would close itself just 11 years later (see table at bottom of the page for details).

During the 1970s, South Bridge School found a new lease of life in the summers when it began to increasingly be used for staging productions at the Festival Fringe – pertinent to the current discussion around its future. When Head Teacher May Beattie left what was now called South Bridge Primary to move to Stockbridge Primary in December 1982, the writing was already on the wall. Not just for her former school, but all of the city’s three remaining Old Town and Southside schools – Lothian Regional Council wanted to shut the lot. Inner city depopulation had proceeded faster than council projections and each school by this point was down to just three composite classes, with fewer than 500 children in schools built with a capacity of over 3,000.

The council’s favoured plan was to shut South Bridge, Milton House and Preston Street and open a “new” school in the old James Clark Technical School (“Jimmy’s“) at St. Leonard’s Hill, saving £80,000 a year. An alternatice scheme offering a lesser reduction of £64,000 could be achieved by merging South Bridge and Milton House and disposing of the James Clark building. This was favoured by the Council’s Labour group and a particularly vociferous campaign against the closure of Preston Street from the parents at that school. It had been intended to close Milton House and move pupils there to South Bridge, but it was recognised that the former school was better located to serve the main centre of population at Dumbiedykes and had a more favourable site in general, so the opposite happened. Statutory notices to this effect were published in November 1982.

And so it was that South Bridge Primary School closed in 1983 and its pupils moved to Milton House on the Canongate. Also a school by Wilson, it was in a red sandstone Scottish Baronial Revival style. The combined new school was renamed to Royal Mile Primary School.

The last day at Infirmary Street came in May 1983. Pupil Murray Ramsay ceremonially rang the school’s hand bell for the last time. Six year old Sally Atta was overcome at the occasion and had to be comforted by Headteacher Mrs Sturgeon.

But while it closed as a school, that was not the end of education at South Bridge – Lothian Regional Council reopened it as the South Bridge Resource Centre to serve various outreach services, adult education, youth groups and more. The Old Town Oral History and Old Town Community Development projects moved in, as did the Canongate Youth Project, which has been there since 1984 and is the primary occupant of the building. Various other community and educational projects have come and gone, but the City of Edinburgh Council’s Adult education service are still run from here.

Amendments were put forward by the council’s Green group (and I believe, approved) to make any such changes contingent on first securing the position of the sitting organisations, but news this last week suggests this has not happened (see first paragraph!) But one thing certainly has a precedent – once such buildings are lost from community and education use, they don’t go back to it. The table below shows the fate of all the Old Town and South Side schools since 1911. You can make up your own mind whether or not you think agreeing to such handovers behind closed doors before publicly consulting on the future of resident organisations and coming up with a plan or any money to facilitate that is the right way to do things.

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After the #warmongers have sufficiently weakened Russia via proxy they intend to switch to #war on #Asia, mostly #China and #Taiwan etc. Something to do with China not respecting #intellectualProperty laws, and wanting to maintain the integrity of their borders, or something such.

Know that #neocons embrace this.

They use online #anonymity to promote mass #depopulation outcomes they are setup to benefit from.

We call for #PlannedDegrowth instead.

India to surpass China in population in 2023

https://thenewstoday24.com/india-to-surpass-china-in-population-in-2023/

#population #populationcontrol #world #india #china #people #worldpopulationday #depopulation #facts #control #Russia #overpopulation #newworldorder #populationday #nature #truthseeker #mindcontrol #elite #secretsocieties #nwo #freedomthinker #anonymous #illuminati #pinealgland #explorepage #staywoke #collective #worldpopulation #conscious #populationhealth

About 20% of the population is now #concentrated in only seven municipalities, which comprises about 1.1% of the area of #Portugal
“At the other extreme, also representing about 20% of the population, we have 208 least populated municipalities which occupy 65.8% of the country's area," reads the publication of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

#Depopulation
#Aging

https://www.publico.pt/2022/11/23/sociedade/noticia/censos-20-portugueses-concentramse-apenas-11-territorio-2028835

Who needs to push wild narratives of a UN #depopulation agenda when we have #NATO egging on #Ukraine to do something stupid in their name?

Sort of makes UN #sustainabilityGoals like access to #contraception, family planning and quality #education for all seem like access to contraception, #familyPlanning and quality #educationForAll.

Jeebus!

You mean its not about drinking baby elephant blood and harvesting genetic stemcell men to keep #theSimpsons episode generator going?

#brinkmanship #UN

You know there's a #marketCrash looming when the #USA goes out of their way to bring #war to the world.

#USAggression #MICIMATTComplex #whyBitcoinCoin #dePopulation #populationControl #nuclearWar

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#covid19 #vaccine #vaccines #chipped #prepping #preparedness #survival #depopulation

@HealthRanger have you seen this?

https://www.brighteon.com/5a4197ac-7cd6-442e-bf8c-82fda7d392b8

If you got chipped let us know!!!
#covid19 #vaccine #vaccines #chipped #prepping #preparedness #survival #depopulation

@HealthRanger have you seen this?