A cartogram is a map that's been weighted for a particular variable, which in this case is religion. This cartogram shows the distribution of the world's biggest "faith" groups. www.viewsoftheworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WorldReligions.jpg
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According to a study of U.S. Census data by the University of New Hampshire released last week, white deaths now exceed white births in one-third of U.S. states (noted in red on this map), including most of New England, California, and the Southwest. www.wsj.com/articles/more-whites-die-than-are-born-in-one-third-of-states-1480433481
This article in the science journal Nature considers where to put the next billion people likely to share the planet by the year 2030. www.nature.com/news/where-to-put-the-next-billion-people-1.20669 "To see which areas of the world have physical conditions that could theoretically accommodate an extra billion people sustainably, we ... ruled out regions with extreme or high water stress; other arid areas; tundra and ice; centres with species unique to a region; and regions with population densities that exceed 100 people per square kilometre, namely much of Europe, the Middle East, India and China and the western United States." The map below shows areas suitable for further development.
This series of four maps provides a thought-provoking look at different ways the earth's population can be divided into four equal quarters. www.stevefaeembra.com/blog/2016/7/30/quarters-of-the-earths-population
Where to put an extra 2+ billion people by 2050? One intriguing possibility is where humans have chosen to live on occasion previously: underground. Rediscovered in the 1960s, Derinkuyu, in central Turkey, is one example of an ancient underground city, at one time housing more than 15,000 people and their animals across multiple levels. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/07/05/ancient-underground-city-discovered-beneath-a-house-in-anatolia-turkey-2/
Ethiopia has one of the fastest-growing populations on the planet, roughly doubling every 30 years. But its agricultural productivity has not kept pace. Last week Ethiopia announced that it's nearly done with a digital soil mapping project that will allow farmers to identify specific fertilizer blends best suited to their soil conditions and crops, a step that may enable Ethiopian farmers to triple grain yield. www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-climatechange-agriculture-idUSKCN11Z197
Data released by the Pew Research Center last week shows that most Hispanics living in the U.S. were born in the United States and are not immigrants. This map, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal, provides more detail and shows the South to be the main exception to this shift.
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