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I don't see why population collapse implies the end of the human race. It seems like it would be more sustainable medium term to have less people. Endangered sp
by gmm1990 5y ago
I don't see why population collapse implies the end of the human race. It seems like it would be more sustainable medium term to have less people. Endangered species come back from numbers in the thousands maybe even less. I'd imagine once population levels reached anywhere near those kinds of levels there'd be a change in poplulations willingness to have children.
- magneticnorth 5y agoI'm just meaning sort of statistically - if we somehow knew only another 100B people will be born, then either we continue along our current growth and burn through 100B in a thousand years or so, or the species lasts for millenia but the total number of those people is only 100B, so the population never got huge again. This is really just kind of an abuse of statistical thinking - you're not wrong at all that populations recover, but in our case if that happened we're back to saying that we were born in the first 5% of humanity, which I'm saying is likely not the case.
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