30 2022 - Population 8 billion

July 28 2021 - Tokyo vs Canada

 

How can this be?   The population of Canada in 2018 is 37.59 million people living on 9.985 million km2 of land. The population of Tokyo is 39 million and the square kilometres are 2,194.  I hadn't realized that Tokyo is the largest city in the world in population.  Nor had I thought about what the footprint of a large city might be.  This make us aware of how we in Canada live in relatively large amounts of space. Tokyo's total population increases daily by 2.5 million workers and students. How many additional people are there for the Olympics? Competitors alone are over 11,000. It is also the largest urban economy in the world by gross domestic product and is an Alpha+ city. It has the world's tallest tower - Tokyo Skytree, and the world's largest underground floodwater diversion facility.  It has the busiest train station in the world.  I guess Tokyo would be biggest, busiest in quite a few categories.  Tokyo consists of 62 municipalities: 23 special wards, 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages. In comparison Ontario has 52 cities and 444 municipalities fitting into 139,931 km².   There is a long list of "interesting facts" about Tokyo - for travellers, for kids, things you should know, crazy facts, and on and on.  It has a lot of the biggest, the most, and the best.  What I notice is that every picture is full of people - crowds of people.  All squashed into that "footprint". Today's abstract is derived from motion blur pictures of birch trunks.

May 24 2020 - Worldometer

Is it just me?  I consider this to be Victoria Day weekend.  It's that variable calendar does it to us. Somehow I found the website named worldometmers.info.  It comes up with the total coronavirus cases in the world.  Clicking on world population, the number changes continuously when will we reach 8,000,000,000?   Wikipedia says 2024, but the Worldometer says 2023. We're currently at 7.8 billion.   All the population milestones are Here. The Worldometer website is compelling with its real-time counters. Our world appears frenetic.  Scrolling down the list, here are some of the things being tracked: Society and Media: new book titles newspapers circulated today TV sets sold today Food: undernourished people overweight people The categories include:  Government and Economics, Environment, Water, Energy, Health... "Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world. It is published by a small and independent digital media company based in the United States. We have no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation. Furthermore, we have no investors, donors, grants, or backers of any type. We are completely independent and self-financed through automated programmatic advertising sold in real time on multiple ad exchanges." A few weeks ago I saw this flock of domestic geese in Jordan Valley at the one lane bridge.  The dogs in the truck checked them out too.

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