Greece's 'ghost' towns show the risks of population decline

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  • @sa.377
    @sa.377 21 годину тому +16

    It's truly dramatic especially in the mountains, Macedonia and northern Greece. Same in south Italy.

  • @MarcoSalieri-ck2gc
    @MarcoSalieri-ck2gc 21 годину тому +17

    A very beautiful minister!

  • @purplesprigs
    @purplesprigs 6 годин тому +3

    I took an environmental science course, many decades ago. The one main point of the textbook was that the planet could not possibly support the growing global population, and that the only chance for the human race to survive was global population decline. I never thought I'd live to see it. Thanks Helen Reddy.

  • @grahamashe9715
    @grahamashe9715 19 годин тому +21

    How do you slow population growth without anyone even realising it? Empower women (even to the point of absurdity) but say it's about equality.

    • @ssuwandi3240
      @ssuwandi3240 15 годин тому +1

      And get the Men into frocks and heels.. Inclusion that Citizen must bear the absurd engineering costs
      Indeed the Woke would buy the Deceit!

    • @jackdeniston6150
      @jackdeniston6150 14 годин тому +1

      Not slowed,reversed

    • @ssuwandi3240
      @ssuwandi3240 13 годин тому

      Clown show
      Chief of Diversity 🤤🤤

    • @69pepe420
      @69pepe420 11 годин тому +1

      Weimar

    • @JamaikaIS
      @JamaikaIS 6 годин тому +3

      Taxing and inflation killed all the enthusiasm in young people.
      Greece like many others european countries are taxing its people like is no tomorow.
      Also the unbound imigration leads to scarcity of jobs and lower wages.
      And the properties prices are rising and rising because many foreigners want a piece of paradise.

  • @vincentmahon6423
    @vincentmahon6423 10 годин тому +3

    In Russia there are 20,000 abandoned villages and another 30,000 villages with 10 or fewer inhabitants.

  • @jakejoyride
    @jakejoyride 6 годин тому +3

    People left because there was a reason

  • @santostv.
    @santostv. 4 години тому +1

    They don’t seem to know what they are talking about.
    Government only think short term and to their benefit.
    We are in this together southern brothers.

  • @User.mindyourownbusiness94
    @User.mindyourownbusiness94 19 годин тому +6

    Salaries cannot cover living costs. Things like rent, utility bills, are just too expensive. The decision not to have children is an expected outcome.

    • @69pepe420
      @69pepe420 11 годин тому

      its all orchestrated to displace americans and kills us off while they import illegals

  • @ThomasMann85643
    @ThomasMann85643 6 годин тому +1

    Like here in CYPRUS. Only jobs are tourism and government employment and construction which surges from boom to burst every few years,

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan 8 годин тому +2

    1/3 of the population lives in Athens, wow.

  • @marcv2648
    @marcv2648 15 годин тому +2

    Tax breaks and then paid government incentives. This combination still just creates huge government dependency. Why not just start eliminating taxes and regulations? Oh.... right.... because then they will no longer be dependapotamuses.

  • @geoffoakland
    @geoffoakland 11 годин тому +4

    Encourage the Greeks who left Greece decades ago to back and retire in Greece. Better weather, cheaper than the countries that they immigrated to. Ive read of Portuguese who are returning to Portugal from Canada to spend their retirement. Sell the800k house in Toronto and live like a king in Portugal..ok, except Lisbon😅. Too expensive now.

    • @Alexander-rr6yn
      @Alexander-rr6yn 7 годин тому +5

      They need young people not retired ones 😂.

    • @santostv.
      @santostv. 5 годин тому

      We need productive members of society not old ones ,we are filled with old people already in southern Europe.
      We don’t need a bunch of retirees that want a countries with lower purchasing powers, most old people don’t spend a lot of money and are frugal that is the same has trying to grow the economy by increasing the immigrant population.
      We already sold albufeira to the retired Brits decades ago and now selling Lisbon to Americans and maybe a few Canadians 😂
      If you say the kids of those retirees than we are talking but will never happen, our youth in Portugal is going to Switzerland and Benelux
      There’s 180 old people per 100 young people in Portugal.
      We need a diversified economy like Germany and France and not tourists,digital nomads and rich retirees based economy.
      Tourism creates low paying jobs and high demand for housing in a market with low new development since the gfc, expats makes the few real estate developers to makes luxury houses to cater to them or increase the rent prices in the areas they congregate and gentrify,retirees same thing although they are already starting to complain about housing prices in Lisbon although they are in part to blame for overpaying for everything, when the tourism boom goes away and tax breaks continue to lower the rats will leave the boat and our government is to blame for chasing short term solutions.

  • @keymot1491
    @keymot1491 13 годин тому +10

    I’m Saudi and I think my country is the only rich country that still kinda make babies (2.4 FR) and Saudi women have double rates of college and higher education than Greece
    The key thing really is just affordable housing, free education for ur kids (even uni), and maybe being more religious also plays a role

    • @keymot1491
      @keymot1491 13 годин тому +6

      ppl won’t start families without a home, and in modern society ppl won't have babies if they think they won't be able to at least ensure their academic future (sending him to uni or something equivalent)

    • @Shikuesi
      @Shikuesi 12 годин тому +3

      You forgot Israel, which tops you out at 3 or so. Also, how rich do you think you'll be once net zero really bites?

    • @ciybersal3499
      @ciybersal3499 11 годин тому

      Religion is v important. Muslims have more babies relative to other religions or irreligion

    • @Zaxos123
      @Zaxos123 9 годин тому +1

      forgot to mention the oil money

    • @let0atreides
      @let0atreides 8 годин тому

      2.39 was 2022, 2.148 was 2023. That's the thing, it drops so fast everywhere, that within one year your stats are off. I can bet you Saudi Arabia is already close or below 2.0 for 2024/25.

  • @kyungshim6483
    @kyungshim6483 5 годин тому

    It's time for Greece to create incentives to revitalize and rejuvenate these communities like some towns in Italy.

  • @thomashague9206
    @thomashague9206 3 години тому

    The infrastructure is there and in place. It's called Starlink.

  • @2531Prasad
    @2531Prasad 9 годин тому +2

    Some smart people will talk about income,
    the Birth rate decline is at same rate in Norway and USA
    the only community that has beaten birth rate benchmark is Muslims across the countries

    • @paulrobert3325
      @paulrobert3325 26 хвилин тому

      Nope, Muslim and African birth rate trends are also declining

  • @Riddingwithvivian
    @Riddingwithvivian 7 годин тому +2

    You cant live on love you need to work and there just isn't jobs or desirable jobs in some of these places

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому +1

    When own people go outside,it show economy is not good very hard time,it looks like they not or not get the deal proposal

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому +1

    Sold or become part of share holder business deal...lots opportunity Greece government not touch....

  • @robertplant2059
    @robertplant2059 2 години тому

    why I push back on the Mediterranean diet, I always believed it was partially due to economics, as it is in europe.
    can't indulge if you cannot afford it.

  • @moonyeom-vag
    @moonyeom-vag 59 хвилин тому

    i wish i could be living in there. here in Australia, too many people living in crises in costs and shortage of housing. here only the wealthy people can live. open wider immigration doors.

  • @ilikevines
    @ilikevines 16 годин тому

    So sad, we need a new enlightenment to find a way for us to adjust to the post 1960s high tech modern world. Never before has so much changed in so short a time.

  • @JonFrumTheFirst
    @JonFrumTheFirst 6 годин тому

    Portugal and Italy the same. Once you move inland from the Atlantic, Portugal has been depopulated.

    • @JoseAfonso-x4d
      @JoseAfonso-x4d 5 годин тому

      Wrong

    • @santostv.
      @santostv. 4 години тому

      Most of the population of Portugal lives by the coast ,~82,5% of the population, in Spain is donut shaped desert, france is a diagonal line, in Italy the south is poorer and depopulating
      This a phenomenon that happens in most countries, people go where jobs exist especially now that we are not agriculture based economies but service economies.
      Still people exist there although neglected by the central government.

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому

    Economy in Greece is not good, better talking about investment and others similar with this business, debt probably can be done with a deal... American..

  • @cpt.georgios6340
    @cpt.georgios6340 11 годин тому +5

    What are you talking about? things are simple, you have the old generation that is property owning and egoistic, they vote for political parties only to ensure their pension. As a result Greece cannot invest in the future, than being said there are absolutely zero oportunities for educated people. when I say zero, I mean zero, there are no factories there is no reserch and development and event in sectors like energy that might have potentialy absorbed educated engineers cannot do this. They dont because these sectors were connected to the goverment and the goverment provided such vacancies to old uneducated people that are affiliated to the political parties, that's also causing troubles for example a year ago two train colided and more than 50 people died.
    This is Greece 2.0, the puppet prime minister that was established by the American sphere of influcence thinks that everythings is okay, but I can ensure you that all young people are ashamed of our country- tottaly ashamed

  • @miriamwells35
    @miriamwells35 14 годин тому +1

    aftereffects of WW2

    • @69pepe420
      @69pepe420 11 годин тому

      imagine the people who died in WW2 coming back to find the govt flooded America with illegal immigrants and are a minority in their country. sad stuff.

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому

    Greece debt can be reduce,it is not too much after all....

  • @krishnanunnimadathil8142
    @krishnanunnimadathil8142 17 годин тому +1

    Who thought socialism - social welfare state, that is - wouldn’t work? Any wonder people left in droves?

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому

    How about others place

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому

    Yeah already give my words, probably already in good time to do business deal...this British already being kick out...

  • @ibrahimtouman2279
    @ibrahimtouman2279 3 години тому

    Europe's problems don't matter, what really matters is that Zelensky is kept well fed 👏

  • @mjg239
    @mjg239 8 годин тому

    Once Georgia joins the EU, this population decline will also occur there, too.

    • @emmanuilushka
      @emmanuilushka 7 годин тому

      Georgia is already 3 mil people. Nothing to decline there.

    • @santostv.
      @santostv. 5 годин тому

      Georgia is already at 2,06 (2022) and will probably continue to decline,it’s a global phenomenon in most countries, you can’t blame on the potential eu membership of Georgia.

  • @petenrita
    @petenrita 54 хвилини тому

    then terrible prospect of immigration. Why not invite the Greek diaspora back?

  • @immortalideas-fi6kj
    @immortalideas-fi6kj 3 години тому

    Sofia, I like you ❤❤❤.

  • @Stoicgenuis
    @Stoicgenuis 7 годин тому

    Great Greece are awful

  • @Stoicgenuis
    @Stoicgenuis 7 годин тому

    Invite immigrants problem solved 😂😂

  • @khairulnaeim756
    @khairulnaeim756 18 годин тому

    All Over sector shall will be... from small thing to high technology... hopefully can get fully understanding...both side... because before this their are lots of issues... from sabotage from inside out to...a greedy men and women... American elected president... already show how serious we are about business deal ... hopefully end of our business deal both side can have big smile...you know.. Christmas..let it be a good one..