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> By all accounts, that boom will continue for some time until it peaks and the only viable way to feed that many people is to increase yield density. We could
by craftyguy 9y ago
> By all accounts, that boom will continue for some time until it peaks and the only viable way to feed that many people is to increase yield density.
We could also work to reduce the peak. You know, fight the illness, not the symptoms?
- icelancer 9y agoEugenics and population control fell out of favor a few decades ago. Gonna be hard to bring that movement back into vogue.
- DubiousPusher 9y agoNations and NGOs are doing this. Many are working very hard to spread contraception and reproductive hygiene. The growth has been significantly curbed by this effort with peak population estimates being revised down several times. But many societies have difficult to breach social norms regarding even talking about sex. social norms are very hard to change and we've made amazing progress in just a century. But it's possible we've reached something like a hard limit on how quickly we can change people's beliefs. I for one haven't heard of any new revolutionary psychology that will help move this along faster. We have to tackle this problem from all sides.
- mirimir 9y agoPopulation is increasing fastest in the least developed areas. And without economic development, it generally doesn't work to tell people to have fewer kids. And parts of Africa seem stuck. I don't really know why.