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I used to share the concern with overpopulation, but birth rates are often below replacement in developed countries. I now worry more about the long-term surviv

I used to share the concern with overpopulation, but birth rates are often below replacement in developed countries. I now worry more about the long-term survival of humanity than I do about overpopulation. I expect all countries to eventually become developed and follow the same trend, and eventually the population just naturally dwindles because we become a post-survivalist society and don't care about propagating our genes anymore, and we just care about optimizing individual happiness.

11235813213455 5y ago
It's not as if humans were an endangered species, wouldn't be bad that the population gradually decrease to 4 billions and less
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lm28469 5y ago
> I now worry more about the long-term survival of humanity I think humanity as a whole will do just fine: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/world-population-since-10000-bce-ourworldindata-series.svg https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/world-population-...