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Overpopulation is ending. Fertility rates are declining and are almost below replacement rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate https://en.wi

• coldnebo 10y ago
  Are you saying the process that creates risk is ending or that we are simply hitting a boundary condition (i.e. The edge of the Petri dish)? TFR is synthetic based on population behavior (I.e. Not solely intrinsic, such as genetic). My point is that there is a feedback-loop at work here. Educated women self-select against reproduction because the consequences are more obvious. But under-educated women still have high TFR-- they will need to hit hard boundaries (starvation, dieback). I don't think the process of overpopulation is ending, just clamped.