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0 pointsNewUser763121y ago0 comments

>The dropping birth rate is neutral,

No, sorry, I don't quite agree that trending towards population and demographic collapse is "neutral".

I don't think it's neutral either that younger generations will have a painful fiscal responsibility to support the older generations who got to live their lives out already.

>exhaustible consumable

Stop with the fixed pie fallacy, that's not how our world works. We innovate and adapt. Look at how renewables are trending, electric cars are growing in market share, poverty rates lowered significantly as population grew the last 50 years, etc.

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stemlord1y ago

Are you suggesting the population should grow forever, and that we'll "innovate and adapt" past resource consumption? Feels a bit techno-utopian idealistic no?

Would much prefer a "painful fiscal responsibility" over living out some overpopulation nightmare scenario

Izkata1y ago

They used the word "collapse" for a reason: The problem isn't population reduction in general, the problem is in several countries it looks like it's going to happen too fast.

quantified1y ago

When the population lowers a bit the birth rate will probably come back up. There is no reason to believe in alarmism at a smaller population. If you're worried about the loss of our economic Ponzi scheme, let's fix that.

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