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I'm not sure why this gets flagged, because it's very interesting and concerns all of us. I think it's great, in my mind, there's too many people on the planet

I'm not sure why this gets flagged, because it's very interesting and concerns all of us. I think it's great, in my mind, there's too many people on the planet already, and we're stressing the biospehere near the breaking point in multiple ways. 9-10 billion people is plenty. This news is a welcome bit of good news in an otherwise scary future.

nodoodles 3y ago
Agreed, it's curious the article never mentions sustainability or benefits of not having uncontrolled population growth, but uses negative language for the trend (collapse, doom, disappearing..)
- slashdev 3y ago
  Yeah, some people are very alarmed that population growth, and thus economic growth might slow down. Elon Musk for example, is very alarmed about it. I think we have to find a sustainable future, or it will find us on terms we won't like at all. This is a good thing.
readthenotes1 3y ago
I believe that it is actually just a racist / eugenics dog whistle because if you look at who is actually making babies, it is Africans
- slashdev 3y ago
  There's always one moron who wants to bring race into the discussion
friend_and_foe 3y ago
I want you to ask yourself, how scary would it be if the population was 70% over the age of 60? You have three scenarios: old people working themselves into a grave, starving in the streets, or you're being taxed like a slave at 70% just to feed them. That sounds like a really scary future to me.
- slashdev 3y ago
  It beats the alternatives. Their children will have to help, as is common in many parts of the world.
  - friend_and_foe 3y ago
    How does it beat the alternatives?
    - slashdev 3y ago
      The alternative is poluation grows unbounded until we destroy the biosphere and the wars, famines, and disease that follows finally limit the growth of the human population in a way we're unable and unwilling to do. Infinite growth is incomaptible with a finite world. This is so much better than that.

nodoodles 3y ago

Agreed, it's curious the article never mentions sustainability or benefits of not having uncontrolled population growth, but uses negative language for the trend (collapse, doom, disappearing..)

slashdev 3y ago
Yeah, some people are very alarmed that population growth, and thus economic growth might slow down. Elon Musk for example, is very alarmed about it. I think we have to find a sustainable future, or it will find us on terms we won't like at all. This is a good thing.

readthenotes1 3y ago

I believe that it is actually just a racist / eugenics dog whistle because if you look at who is actually making babies, it is Africans

slashdev 3y ago
There's always one moron who wants to bring race into the discussion

friend_and_foe 3y ago

I want you to ask yourself, how scary would it be if the population was 70% over the age of 60? You have three scenarios: old people working themselves into a grave, starving in the streets, or you're being taxed like a slave at 70% just to feed them. That sounds like a really scary future to me.

slashdev 3y ago
It beats the alternatives. Their children will have to help, as is common in many parts of the world.
- friend_and_foe 3y ago
  How does it beat the alternatives?
  - slashdev 3y ago
    The alternative is poluation grows unbounded until we destroy the biosphere and the wars, famines, and disease that follows finally limit the growth of the human population in a way we're unable and unwilling to do. Infinite growth is incomaptible with a finite world. This is so much better than that.