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If you think that population trends are still exponential then you’ve been living under a rock

• ilyt 3y ago
  Yup, if all countries got to the "1st world countries" birth rates the population would slowly start to drop, maybe even equalize at some point.
  • throwuwu 3y ago
    Population collapse is like a banking collapse, it happens slowly at first and then all at once.
    • ilyt 3y ago
      Well if you don't fix the problem of "it's too dystopian to even think about having children", sure
      • throwuwu 3y ago
        That’s not the main reason why so many more people are childless now. We have a long road ahead to fix this.
• lm28469 3y ago
  At a global scale yes. Now look at specific countries/continents, some are absolutely exploding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria#/media/File:Nigeria_single_age_population_pyramid_2020.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria#/media... https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2020/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2020/ They currently use a tiny fraction of the energy the west does (and pollute a tiny fraction), they'll eventually catch up in "quality of life", with all the comes with it (exploding energy consumption)
  • throwuwu 3y ago
    And they’ll follow the same curve that India did and China before them and so on but I’ll bet the time scale will be greatly compressed because they benefit from all of our experience and technology and having so many more countries ahead of them on the curve who will invest in them.