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psud@aussie.zone 3 weeks agothe population problem
That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon
We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no, there’s no ‘may’ about it - we’re 100% fucked on that front.
psud@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.
It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously
The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak