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> dangerous to our survival as a species. Elephant in the room: dangerous to continued exponential growth of our species' population count.
by foobarian 3y ago
> dangerous to our survival as a species.
Elephant in the room: dangerous to continued exponential growth of our species' population count.
- notfish 3y agoAm I misunderstanding you? Sure, we probably won’t be able to continue expanding exponentially, but to be honest I don’t really care if we grow forever or stay steady at 10 billion. There’s a significant, nonzero risk of complete species death though, a matter about which I care a great deal. Extinction is worse than stagnation.
- pyrale 3y agoCounterpoint: the countries most responsible for messing with planetary balance are not the ones experiencing significant population growth.
- j0057 3y agoThere's good evidence that if we can alleviate poverty and child mortality everywhere, fertility rates will start coming down like they have in richer countries and we'll end up at 10-11 billion people.