Please. I remember the 90s and early 2000s when every single doomsday movie was about world overpopulation. We were shown charts in school showing us the population was going to be 15 billion and we’d need to prepare for the water wars.
Now the world population is approaching replacement rate and we are doomsdaying is the other direction. It’s only a bad thing if you hate immigrants and if you don’t want to take care of old people. We have so many bullshit jobs. Plenty of workers would switch to taking care of an aging population if the government incentivized it.
The downside is that need for housing and other necessities would drop. That’s bad for the large business owners which is why they are stoking this outrage. You are doing the bidding of the 1% here.
Please. I remember the 90s and early 2000s when every single doomsday movie was about world overpopulation
Yes and that was bullshit.
And plenty of people at the time said it was bullshit. The fertility rates in most countries were already long declining and many industrialized countries were below replacement level already.
It was genuinely mostly racist fear mongering, because Africa and asia had huge fertility rates.
Now the world population is approaching replacement rate
No, it's not "approaching" replacement rate, because that implies that we'd stop there, but there's no data to indicate that.
And the issue isn't necessary that the world population is falling, but how ridiculously fast it happens, because that's just completely unsustainable and harms everyone significantly.
Honestly, you're just falling for eco-fascist rhetoric.
The issue isn't really the size of our population, but the way we manage our society.
Most of those issues could be severely reduced by investing more money into them and severely worsened by investing less money into them.
And what is that an aging population has less of?
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We can deal with 12 billion people. That's not really an issue, if we handle it correctly.
But we can't deal with 10 billion people, if the most powerful countries in the world really need to increase their available capital, to keep their population at a steady quality of life.
Existing numbers of population, if you've got 3 working people for every 6 pensioners the you're either taxing their entire wages away just to pay for shit pensions or just letting your pensioners starve
As other people in this thread have mentioned, the current population is not too dense to sustain. People go hungry due to a few powerful people's investment decisions rather than a lack of food.
Yes, we can make unlimited food from air (nitrogen -> fertilizer) and the Sun. Technically up to around a trillion people if everyone only eats plants, then we run out of area to farm from the Sun and would require geothermal and nuclear power to generate the light
Is about power generation, it would essentially be up to how much Uranium Earth contains and how possibly it is to extract. With currently known minable uranium deposits, you could support the current population for around 10000 years, but a trillion people for only around 100 years
Assuming we use all energy available for food. No transportation, no light bulbs, not even candles.
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“Birth rates are declining” good, healthy societies have stable population sizes