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A gradual reduction in population sounds like exactly what the world needs.
by jl6 7y ago
A gradual reduction in population sounds like exactly what the world needs.
- jillesvangurp 7y agoExactly, figuring out how to increase happiness without growing the population exponentially, would be major progress. It has some hard limits in terms of resource consumption and distribution.
- ulucs 7y agoBy the logic of our current economic models (along with our observations of thousand years of economic history), we don't even have to figure anything out. As technology advances and capital accumulates without population growth; consumption per capita and wages go up, and rent of capital goes down. However, cutting down population growth (along with economic growth) is usually not in the nations' interests.
- pbjmj 7y agothe government and conglomerates will not like this
- georgeplusplus 7y agoI’d like To expand on this, Economic models are built on growth. To achieve growth there are three ways, increase the demand, increase the consumers, and increase productivity/efficiency. The world economy has been expanding rapidly in party because there are more consumers brought about from an increase in population. You need to fix the dependency on an exponential growth model before you can hope to have a reduction in population and I’ll take it a step further and this needs to be done to solve climate change.
- downerending 7y agoIf Benatar is to be believed, happiness is increased in general only by decreasing the population (preferably to zero). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benatar#Humans'_unreliable_assessment_of_life's_quality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benatar#Humans'_unreliab...
- Aaron_Putnam 7y agoWe are not seeing a gradual reduction though, populations in Africa and West Asia are continually increasing, and will drive the population on Earth to 11.2 billion by 2100: https://ourworldindata.org/app/uploads/2019/07/historical-and-projected-population-by-region-768x542.png https://ourworldindata.org/app/uploads/2019/07/historical-an...
- shard972 7y agoSo we should then be discussing how this can be applied to the countries who are currently exploding in population.
- Huycfhct 7y agoWhy? We are getting richer, more efficient and better able to support more people With CO2 emissions we need better technology to solve the problem. Low birthrate is no solution