Population is predicted to reach a peak and then start declining according to all the modelling I have seen so overpopulation is not a problem without a solution.

And the vast majority of that population is not consuming most of the energy. India's per capita consumption is less than one tenth of that of the US [1]. Even though they have three times the population they still consume less than one third of what the US does.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?country=IND%7E...

I keep photos on Google and MS but they are short term storage only and never the only copy.

In Norway there is a list [1] run by the state registry service (Brønnøysundregitrene). Any individual can add their phone number to the list.

Anyone cold calling is required to check that list at least once a month and there are fines for calling someone on the list.

[1] https://www.brreg.no/om-oss/registrene-vare/om-reservasjonsr...

You don't need to do everything orally. A return to handwritten final exams done without electronic aids would help too. They can be open note as mine were in the mid 70s or even open book.

As for scalability, I really don't see the problem; if we are producing so many qualified people then we surely can use some of them to examine the next generation. It sounds like the argument that often appears on the web where someone, usually an American, claims that a solution that works in, say the UK, can't work in their country simply because their population is larger.

Also, we really should consider if shoe horning every young person into an academic institution is useful either to society or to the person concerned. It certainly has not been an unmixed success in the UK.

But I too have met engineers with music and also medical backgrounds. But that's all more than half a century ago, it seems that employers expect much more narrowly focussed qualifications these days.

We all protested that DNB was simply killing a competitor but the government let them do it anyway.

Surely only if you configure them that way. At least I can turn that off in my email client, Thunderbird.

Nina xx