Interesting Links for 08-04-2025

[andrewducker]

1. North of Scotland electricity network to have £450m upgrade

(tags:electricity scotland )

2. Online fashion sales generated 941 million plastic bags in the UK alone last year - 2.6 million bags every day.

(tags:plastic uk postage )

3. 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

(tags:versioncontrol history computers )

4. South Korea is doomed

(tags:population Korea thefuture doom video )

5. First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb

(tags:childbirth organdonor uk )

Comments

[bens_dad]

IIUC C21 UK immigration has been significant*, though I don't know how much is around students and could thus go away quickly.
But it happened without me noticing and with politicians saying they were stopping it, so there was no discussion about who or where would be best.

* https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/ suggests over 15% population growth since 2000. Well over half of that appears to be migration. We are however a smaller percentage of the world population (but perhaps not of world resource consumption).

[andrewducker]

Good point. The immigration will keep things functional, so long as we build enough infrastructure.