An ecosocialist world would not allow wealth inequality to become this bad.
It’s a biological fact when resources are constrained that a population will plateu.
An ecosocialist world would not allow wealth inequality to become this bad.
It’s a biological fact when resources are constrained that a population will plateu.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We don’t live in one. The challenge is to make one.
Mice and fleas don’t have medicine, feminism, research centres and agriculture. Look at the world around you. In societies with high degrees of scarcity and high infant mortality, humans have tended to have a lot of babies. This is true now, and it was true historically. On the flipside, in societies with high development indexes, humans tend to not have many kids. From Japan to Sweden to Cuba, you see that fertility rates inversely correlate with human development. These are just observable facts.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The vestiges of mutual aid left in our society do not meaningfully counteract every generation having 1/2-1/4th of the resources their parents did.
These resources constraints limit population growth, humans are smart enough to see what’s coming and many voluntarily don’t reproduce. We’re already seeing wealth inequality force our birth rate decline.