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And despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, they'll probably continue do fine, as they have since their population leveled out 30 years ago. The doomsday pr
by throwawaylinux 4y ago
And despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, they'll probably continue do fine, as they have since their population leveled out 30 years ago.
The doomsday predictions haven't just started now, and they weren't only about events in 2060. They started decades ago about population growth slowing, population leveling, population dropping. They've been pretty consistently wrong.
- thrown_22 4y ago>They've been pretty consistently wrong. They haven't been wrong, they turned out to be right for everyone. People who didn't live through the boom of the 1950s can't imagine what it's like to live in a world where things improve for everyone every year. Japan didn't start growing like it did before 1980 again, everyone else stopped too. China has been basically the only driver of world economic growth for the last 40 years. Which is kind of astonishing considering they are communists.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago> They haven't been wrong, No, they have. I don't know who you're talking about, I'm talking about the sustainable population doomsayers.
- spullara 4y agoI mean they have been in a state of continuous deflation for a long time. They certainly didn't live up to the 1980s predictions of world domination.
- throwawaylinux 4y agoWhat do you mean, you mean that? Predictions of world domination were equally the same kind of substance-free propaganda and fear mongering. No serious people actually thought a country of ~100 million would economically dominate the world. Nor was not achieving world domination wasn't the anti-sustainable-population propaganda fearmongering of the 90s and 0s that I'm talking about, so I don't know what part of my comment you're trying to respond to.