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It depends what you mean by 'need'. From the perspective of eudaemonia, yes, the surviving population needs goods and services to continue. With a sub-replacem
by droopyEyelids 5y ago
It depends what you mean by 'need'.
From the perspective of eudaemonia, yes, the surviving population needs goods and services to continue. With a sub-replacement birthrate, there are fewer 'new' people to provide the goods and services for the remaining. This creates inflationary pressure and deprivation.
From the perspective of 'will the world end?' no- the Earth will continue to exist even without any people at all.
- virgilp 5y ago> the Earth will continue to exist even without any people at all. Nobody cares about that perspective; it's an obvious and not particularly interesting observation... yeah universe existed without humans and can obviously continue to exist without humans too. When people talk about "world end" they talk about the humanity, not the physical world around us.
- droopyEyelids 5y agoI agree and that's why it was a footnote- that's the point I was making. But on much of the Internet you'll find people eager to misunderstand this very point, so some defensive writing is justified.