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> There are too many people on the planet already I feel the reaction many people have about population decline in NA and EU is understandable (one may or may
by chronid 8y ago
> There are too many people on the planet already
I feel the reaction many people have about population decline in NA and EU is understandable (one may or may not share the concern though, that's personal): your tribe is making less children, the others do no seem to care. And they will replace your tribe in the future if you don't make children, it's a game of numbers in the end.
NA and EU count very little in the great scheme of things from a population perspective [1] anyway - there are 5+ billion people in Asia and Africa (many in places that will be devastated by global warming), and those people aren't going to stop making babies any time soon. Are we going to force them to stop? How?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:Population_Growth_by_World_Bank_continental_division.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:P...
- raverbashing 8y ago> and those people aren't going to stop making babies any time soon Actually, in Asia they are mostly stopping https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate India is 2.5ish already, China is below 2 Yes, there is reason to worry about decline and population replacement, at the same time, numbers are not all there is (especially when people are unhappy).