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Global Population Is Declining and That’s Okay

• rbecker 6y ago
  The article body contradicts the title: global population will peak at around 9.7 billion people in 2064 There's a big difference between "is currently declining" and "is growing, but projected to start declining in 44 years". In fact, a quick skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow... reveals a peak in 2064 is among the lower estimates, with most projections showing continued growth up to 2100.
• mytailorisrich 6y ago
  The growth is slowing but the global population is still growing significantly. I think this is the most important issue we have and it is a root cause of climate change and environmental damage. The projected decline cannot occur soon enough in that respect and ideally we should aim at having a global plan to reduce population but that is politically, and economically, explosive.
• simonblack 6y ago
  A 'one child per woman' policy would get the population down to sustainable levels in just a few generations, without having to resort to genocides or other drastic measures.
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    No, it wouldn't, because you'd have to resort to drastic measures to enforce it (even if you don't consider greatly curtailing reproductive liberty to be, in and of itself, a drastic measure.)