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I personally see this as a positive temporary trend. We are just collectively too many on our planet, and can quite easily cope with reducing our total number
by another2another 4y ago
I personally see this as a positive temporary trend.
We are just collectively too many on our planet, and can quite easily cope with reducing our total number by e.g. 25% over the next 2-3 generations or so.
Unfortunately there's going to be a hump of older people with less younger people providing services and care - it's probably going to be my generation that suffers this - but hopefully on the other side we will have reduced our global footprint and will have worked out how to maintain the same standard of living, but in a more sustainable way without constant unconstrained growth.
- spacebanana7 4y agoWhat makes you think this trend is temporary? Why would it reverse in a couple of generations? Many European and East Asian countries are currently 2-3 generations ahead of the globally average countries in demographic terms yet those high income countries have birth rates that are marching ever further lower
- lazide 4y agoWell, the trend is country specific generally no? So some countries might, other countries won’t. So we’re also talking about population imbalances by country/region.