. Peak human will happen earlier. China's population to fall from a cliff 
, US to remain strong and stable 
LATAM declines and ages
https://ourworldindata.org/un-population-2024-revision
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That's the one that confuses me tbh. Why is Brazil in decline? Are the urbancels really that crowded?
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Slum dwellers are going to use more and more contraceptive methods because there is no reason to raise a child in abject poverty in an environment that probably going to turn xe child into a criminal, and those in the city living in condominiums and/or private neighborhoods won't bother having more than 2 children since it is a financial burden (I am speculating)
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Only 8% of the population lives in slums lol.
I remember some r-slurred mexican youtuber once said "half of Brazil's population live in this shanty towns known as favelas", literally pulling it out of his butt.
Most Brazilians live in houses, including those in large metro areas, foreigners believe Rio de Janeiro is a representative of the entire country.
These are what typical working class neighborhoods look like.
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I had thought half of the population lived in slums up in the mountains from all the BBC and VOX video slop about brazil's inequality, but wouldn't 8% still be a significant part of Brazil? Around 15m-20m, which I guess are concentrated in the metropolitan areas mostly. Also are there any vertical slums? Or residences akin to the Hillbrow tower in South Africa prior renovation
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17 million people to be more precise. Yes, the favelas are concentrated in large metropolises like Rio, São Paulo, Salvador, Recife, Porto Alegre, etc.
But Brazil has many "medium sized" (like 200-800k inhabitants lol) cities with no slums. The state of Rio de Janeiro in particular has the largest concentration of them.
Because every single docu anglocels make on Brazil (or LATAM as a whole) has to be about the poorest, dirtiest, ugliest shitholes they can find, and the pretty parts are depicted as a negative. Imagine someone produced a "documentary" on the US and focused solely on ghettos and trailer park trash.
!latinx !macacos
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That's the video essay sloppa I get recommended though, America's inequality, ghetto zones like Brooklyn or New Orleans, etcetcetc. By the way what are the most remote settlements in Brazil? I know of Manaus which is in the middle of the amazonian jungle, and maybe a town like Ipixuna* which is only accessible by river, or Tristan da Cunha which is under Brazilian legislation but it isn't mainland Brazil.
[Town of Ipixuna in the middle of amazonian rainforest, near Manaus, Brazil]
Also what about Brasilia? It was supposed to be a modern city but the pictures of them look so soulless, like Pyongyang or Ashgabat in Turkmenistan
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They built it in the middle of nowhere neighbor, it is very soulless
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He's a brave modern-day frontiersman. But basically it would be towns in states like Acre, Amapá and Rondônia.
That particular picture of Brasilia is from the "Esplanada dos Ministérios". That's the seat of the Federal Government, however the city has 3 million inhabitants, is just very sprawled
Brasilia is a product of the 1950s that's why it's so car-centric. The main buildings were designed by Oscar Niemeyer (who was a commie by the way) and the layout for the city was designed by Lúcio Costa as part of his "Plano Piloto".
They wanted a "futurist" city but it's actually really lame and urbanistically bad as every thing is so far apart.
!engineering another reason why we need an architecture ping
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That unironically looks like heck to drive in and I've been to NYC
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Hey now, trailer parks can be all fancy-like.
Right !bumpkins?
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Brazilian documentary about the utter depravity of the "Branson Belle"
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Unironically yes. Gated trailer parks exist
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Not living up to its name
Most Burgers' ideas of Brazil come from Blanka in Street Fighter, Only The Strong, City of God, and Carnival. I've met people who think the country is literally just the fricking Amazon rainforest even though like, what, like only 3.5 million people live in Amazonas?
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6 to 8 Million of those are in Rio
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Kinda cozy honestly
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I don't understand
you just posted two pictures of slums. Post some of a normal working class neighborhood lol
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These are favelas
And these (the houses along buildings) are regular neighborhoods. But so are the buildings themselves as 1/3 of the population lives on apartment buildings.
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See, those last two look like (albeit dense) neighborhood homes. The first two pics definitely in op looked like the slums.
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This is not a slum, just a rough poorcel neighborhood, the houses are ugly but they're actual houses with walls. Slum "houses" are precarious dwellings made of bricks and roofs of metal sheets, most don't even have plumbing.
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I think that's a decent portion of the houses in West Virginia tbh
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Probably irony but those are not slums. Slums are characterized by the precarious materials, such as bricks used for exposed brick walls, and zinc sheets used for the roof, alongside somewhere to place a water tank. The ones in the picture are typical homes you do find in towns in south America
[Pictured are slums from Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, in the sector of Jalousie]
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Brazil has a fertility rate of 1.4 lmao, it's much lower than the US and Western. Europe. It fell below 2 almost 20 years ago and has never recovered.
People just don't want kids anymore and contraception is available.
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