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I guess people who say this kind of things don't believe they themselves will be part of the cohort undergoing the shrinkage. This so called natural self-regul
by perfunctory 6y ago
I guess people who say this kind of things don't believe they themselves will be part of the cohort undergoing the shrinkage.
This so called natural self-regulation will be ugly and painful. I don't envy the generation that will have to go through it.
- hengheng 6y agoNot GP but I do say the same, and yes it will be uglier than the first half of the 20th century. The fight for food will be very real and it takes away confidence from my family planning.
- ptr 6y agoIf every woman gives birth to less than ~2.1 children, we're shrinking. Is having <= 2 children painful and ugly?
- wwright 6y agoHumans live for decades. Catastrophic climate change is less than a generation away. It would take hundreds of years for the population to shrink enough to stop it.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat's not how "natural self-regulation" works. People aren't PID regulators and don't suddenly adjust their fertility to not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment. Natural self-regulation means hitting resource limits, followed by sudden and drastic mass dying off, through wars and starvation.
- afjl 6y agoYes, a decreasing tax base is terrible for societies.