This 💔: The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, WW I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

China, famously, had its One China Policy that Xi Jinping abandoned as population growth slowed. He's not alone: In 1974, US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was worried about the impact on America of a surge in population in developing nations.

Demographic transition has been present at major hinge points in history, including the industrial revolution, and may even have been the decisive element. So there's no cause for panic.

I look at this pic I took in Osaka a couple of years ago and, really, it just seems more important than ever