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Reading this just made me think, imagine someday, perhaps a few hundred years, if the world's population were to rise even higher briefly and then dramatically
by hatchnyc 8y ago
Reading this just made me think, imagine someday, perhaps a few hundred years, if the world's population were to rise even higher briefly and then dramatically fall simply due to falling birthrates. The ruins of a worldwide infrastructure of abandoned towns and cities built for 10 or 20 times the current population would probably seem very eerie.
- volkl48 8y agoRecent book came out arguing fairly persuasively that we're basically there and you're going to see unprecedented depopulation in many areas by the end of the century. Title is Empty Planet - the shock of global population decline. Places like China are potentially going to shrink by hundreds of millions of people this century.