I don't believe in reincarnation, but it doesn't really mean that the human population is just constantly the same. Human life increasing in one part of the world may mean animal/fish population decreasing in another. Some bug might become some dude.

That said, lots of cultures and religions have varying views on reincarnation and/or rebirth, so the explanations can vary.

Biodiversity is decreasing. Species's are dying out. They're being reincarnated as lower life forms...... humans

Are souls bound by the constraints of linear time? Maybe we’re all the same person being reborn in parallel with ourselves.

Although I don't believe it, why not adopt the "one soul" point of view? One entity loops through time and experiences everything.

Given the deforestation, fields becoming concrete, biodiversity dying off Id imagine not although I don’t know that for a fact.

Id say farm animals and pets have increased but what else would have?

I don't believe, but the answer could be that we don't know how many living "souls" exist in the universe. Maybe our population growth coincides with the population decline of the planet Xanadu.

Also, how long does it take for souls to transfer? Maybe there is a waiting room with billions upon billion of souls waiting for a body. As our population increase, may those waiting in the waiting room are getting fewer and fewer.

Aren’t animal populations generally increasing as well? (Collectively not individual species)

I definitely think I was a blade of grass

It depends on how you behave in life as to what you come back as. Maybe an ant, a dung beetle, a single celled organism, a blade of grass.

Potentially a life form from a different planet.

Most people say snowboarding is harder on day 1, then gets easier to get better at. Skiing is much easier on day 1, but will be more of a challenge to pick up skill. This is just due to the nature of being able to stand up and using the lift. Being on two separate skis is much closer to natural than being strapped in to a single (mostly) rigid board.

That's just to get to intermediate level. Both are probably equally difficult to get very good at.

As someone who's mediocre at both, I would agree with the first thought.

You are splitting hairs. Not sure why. Some cultures cut what is equivalent to the GLANS or head of the Penis haha geez. You must support this crap. Good day

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Please tell me this is a purposefully trolly answer. Because if you believe this you don't even know your own religion.

This is what I'm thinking. Red from berries associated with the plants the pegans associated with the winter festivals

Remember, Christmas was co opted by Christianity to ease conversion of the pegans into the religion. The Christians should be celebrating the birth of their lord and savior... I believe it's somewhere mid summer.

All they did was help solidify it as "the Santa look" I was born in 80 and raised by my grandparents who were born in the early 30s. They had some old Christmas decorations with a blue Santa and a green Santa.

Coke ran with the red Santa because it matched their company colors (red woth white trim, and red with white letters) and they made it the more popular color pattern for Santa, but in no way created it.

Santa was depicted in all sorts of colours, so while Coke may not have been the first, because of their marketing reach they're the reason why the red/white suit became Santa's suit globally.

I think the red is from holly berries which are red and appear in many traditional solstice celebrations.

You’re incorrect. The clitoris is equivalent to the glans (head of the penis), not the entire penis. The rest of the penis would be equivalent to the vaginal canal. Let’s test your knowledge… how many types of female circumcision are prevalent?

Please tell again that “I do not know what I’m talking about”.

Coca-Cola didn't even invent the red and white Santa suit. It dates back to at least the early 20th century.

This definitely is not it, saying that as someone who grew up Catholic.

Even if the colours were tied to Jesus, why would the symbolism represent his death when the season is about his birth?

Some basic critical thinking proves your theory wrong.

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Coca-Cola is attributed to the red/white Santa suit, not red and green being the defacto Christmas colours. That article says that too.

Well, it's the npr answer. Do you have a better cited answer?

https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506215632/how-red-and-green-became-the-colors-of-christmas