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I still maintain that the current (hopefully slowing) unprecedented industrial population explosion - it increased fourfold in just the last hundred years! - wa

by hoseja 3y ago

I still maintain that the current (hopefully slowing) unprecedented industrial population explosion - it increased fourfold in just the last hundred years! - was orchestrated by empires to have enough bodies to throw into meatgrinders of total war. There's too many people. This is insane. Why isn't everyone freaking out. Slow down.

flappyeagle 3y ago
You first.
- hoseja 3y ago
  Wouldn't you know it, I don't plan on having eleven children. I'd be glad to afford just a couple.
  - jWhick 3y ago
    if, during the past, only the people that could afford children, had them, there would be no people today.
joshuahedlund 3y ago
> orchestrated by empires What does this mean? Birthrates were not higher in the last hundred years than previously, We just got better at keeping kids from dying. In fact these days governments are begging people to raise birthrates and failing quite spectacularly at doing so.