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A 25% decline in the human population is completely irrelevant compared to the economic growth which is raising 6 billion people from a near-subsistence existen
by bpodgursky 6y ago
A 25% decline in the human population is completely irrelevant compared to the economic growth which is raising 6 billion people from a near-subsistence existence into the middle class. Losing a few million British people is completely irrelevant as Nigeria and its 150mm people enter the developed, high-energy, economy.
The solution to climate change is a technological restructuring of human carbon usage patterns. Not fewer humans.
- hermitcrab 6y agoA 25% decline in population across all the richest countries would be highly significant. But it won't be enough if people in developing countries start consuming more and more. Hopefully their populations will also start to level off and then decline as they become richer.
- bobthepanda 6y agoFor the most part they already are. Nigeria has gone from 7 to 5 since 1980, and Ethiopia from 7 to 4. Which is not declining, but certainly progress. India went from 5.5 to 2.2, nearly replacement. Bangladesh went from above 6 to 2.04. The Phillipines in particular shows a dramatic decline from 7.15 in 1960 to 2.58 today.
- hermitcrab 6y agoIs that annual % population growth?
- bobthepanda 6y agoThat's TFR. More comprehensive definition available here: https://populationeducation.org/what-total-fertility-rate/ https://populationeducation.org/what-total-fertility-rate/ Replacement rate for TFR (so, the one that would result in stable population) is considered to be 2.1 by the UN.