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Fertility rates are below replacement everywhere but sub-Saharan Africa, and dropping there too. The population growth curve is flattening out.
by vidarh 3y ago
Fertility rates are below replacement everywhere but sub-Saharan Africa, and dropping there too. The population growth curve is flattening out.
- mattigames 3y agoReplacement levels is still too high, we are way past any reasonable number.
- RankingMember 3y agoI feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people talk of any slowdown in human population growth in fearful terms.
- thefaux 3y agoThe problem is that the people with the strongest and least flexible religious views are precisely those who deny that they are religious.
- Matticus_Rex 3y agoNo, we're not.
- mattigames 3y agoYes we are, and it's a bit concerning how much people in this forum like overpopulation, our species literally already outnumbers rats.
- Matticus_Rex 3y agoAnd outnumbering rats is bad because...?
- vidarh 3y agoPersonally, I dislike rats enough that I'm very happy they don't outnumber us.
- mattigames 3y agoBecause we consider them a plague just be their sheer number (aka how easy they reproduce) If your species outnumber what your species consider a plague, there is a high chance that your species it's the bigger plague.
- vidarh 3y agoThat's a reason why we should be happy that we outnumber them, not a reason for why we should want there to be fewer of us. Nobody cares about the absolute number of rats. We care about the inconveniences they cause us.
- mattigames 3y agoThe inconveniences that our own population high count cause to ourselves includes things like global warming, which we all agree is a huge inconvenience, so even by your own definition we are a plague.
- vidarh 3y agoI have not provided any definition of "a plague", so no, we're not.
- mattigames 3y agoOh you are that kind of discusser, a good faith attempt at discussing would have included a definition for plague in your comment, if the heavily implied one that it must be a "damaging" was not the right one (or just not answer at all if don't want to bother keeping the discussion)
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