I slept in today, after getting up early yesterday after a slightly restless night. I did a 2.5k run as early as I could manage, which was after 9am. It was still cool enough, but sunny and warming up rapidly to another warm day.
I spent most of my time today writing a new ethics lesson plan for the older kids, on the topic of population growth. This required a bit of research, and grabbing some graphs to show to the kids. I learnt that in the year 10,000 BCE, the human population of the world is estimated to be around 4 million people, which is fewer than live in Sydney, which is only about the 100th most populated city on the planet.
I didn’t really do much else today… Cooked an Indian style curry with eggplant and paneer for dinner. Um. Yeah…
New content today:
For the older kids, do you plan (a follow-up?) to talk about the demographic crisis developed nations face, to varying degrees, with Japan being the most endangered? Where the number of too-old-to-work people will be nearly the same as the number of workers, and then population will plummet (barring immigration)?
That’s included as part of this lesson, yes.
Content of 2023-02-03:
Irregular Webcomics #4915 – https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4915.html
Square Root of Minus Garfield #5008 – https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5008
Comments on a Postcard #5133 – https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=5133