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But I was also told by the smartest people that population declines across the world are the actual real threat. What should I believe?

• berkes 3y ago
  A threat to what? Because it certainly is a threat to economic growth. And also a threat to "national" safety if you decline, but your neighbor grows. But it's undeniable that, on global, and millennial scale, exponential growth is unsustainable.
  • radicaldreamer 3y ago
    The neighbor thing doesn't seem like a large threat any longer, especially with WMDs (otherwise Russia would be sweating having China as its neighbor in Siberia, but it doesn't seem like a large threat due to Russia being able to defend its territory)
    • psd1 3y ago
      The thing about MAD is that the button only needs to be pushed once. We're on a tight rope until we aren't.
• tejtm 3y ago
  In an exponential growth environment, every group that does not participate in exploding, loses sooner to any group that does (modulo chance).