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0 pointssteve_taylor7y ago0 comments

You’re confusing quantity with its rate of change. If the population stops growing today and remains the same, all those people are still having an impact on the environment.

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3170707y ago

Or they don't? I mean, it is very possible to have an extremely reduced impact on your environment. You can even have a positive impact! Not at our current average life style, but maybe even at our current average life quality.

Population already has a negative rate of change in the west (leaving out migration).

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