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> Population is already collapsing White rhino population is collapsing. Human population is currently at 8.1B and growing 1.1% a year.

• froh 3y ago
  the growth is decreasing, since years, and the 2050 estimate of 10 Bn is fairly constant over the past 30-50 years in a nutshell human world population growth overall is due to growing life expectancy, not childbirth, the number of children per women goes down because education goes up and extreme poverty ends. Hans Rosling has a very entertaining way of conveying this.
  • coolspot 3y ago
    Sure. But describing this as “collapse” is misleading. Wake me up when there are less than 1M people left.
    • froh 3y ago
      agreed, there is neither collapse nor explosion. a 1.1% growth y/y easily reads as exponential growth, and that, like collapse is a myth.