Fabricio de Oliveira

🇮🇹 Italy’s demographic crisis deepens: The birth rate has been plummeting over the past seven years. Number of live births (approx.): • 2018: ~450,000 • 2019: ~420,000 • 2020: ~400,000 • 2021: ~400,000 • 2022: ~393,000 • 2023: ~379,000 • 2024: ~370,000 • 2025 (on track): Even lower, with first 7 months already down 6.3% vs 2024 Total Fertility Rate (children per woman): Fell from ~1.3 in 2018 to a record low of 1.18 in 2024 — far below the 2.1 replacement level. This is the lowest since unification in 1861, accelerating population aging and straining pensions/healthcare. Successive governments have tried incentives, but the trend continues. 😔

ELON: ANYONE WILL BE ABLE TO GO TO MARS “If Starship is ultimately successful, which I think it will be, if it's not stopped by the government, then anyone who wants to go to the Moon or Mars or elsewhere will be able to go.  This includes kids and families and anyone who wants to go and kind of homestead on Mars, essentially.  I think this would be very exciting.  To be clear, going to Mars at first will be difficult and dangerous.  Not a luxury expedition, but a difficult one, much like the creation of America was.” Source: Philadelphia, October 18, 2024