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What population size problem? Birth rates have plummeted in all developed countries. As more countries become developed the same thing will happen. The populati
by irrational 4y ago
What population size problem? Birth rates have plummeted in all developed countries. As more countries become developed the same thing will happen. The population size problem is already solved - birth control, freedom for women, middle class lifestyles, etc.
- daenz 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32589499
- nabakin 4y agoPopulation size isn't much of a concern right now so idk what OP is talking about, but I doubt population size is solved. Natural selection, in absence of premature death, selects for those that give birth the most. So while at the moment, we are in a sort of lull, eventually the people who have a low birth rate, will be selected out of the population. The only way this doesn't happen is with another force acting in the opposite direction. For example, maybe whatever is causing the birth rate decline now, actually counters the incentives of natural selection over hundreds or thousands of years, or the population exceeds the carrying capacity of the Earth such that premature death becomes common once again.