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There's over 8 billion people, the population is exceptionally stable my friend.
by nilamo 1y ago
There's over 8 billion people, the population is exceptionally stable my friend.
- missedthecue 1y agoDo you think people live forever? Population growth or shrinkage is fundamentally exponential.
- spwa4 1y agoIn other words: it's quite famous for how absurdly enormous swings in birth rate can be. It's famous for how critical it is for a species to have a stable birth rate.
- IAmBroom 1y agoI don't know where you got that idea. Some species critically depend on wildly unstable birth rates (grasshoppers and cicadas, but probably also deer and many other prey populations). Stable populations are completely irrelevant at the microscopic levels; InBev would fold within a week if yeast populations were stable.
- spwa4 1y agoAnd both grasshoppers and cicadas are famous for suddenly disappearing across enormous areas. Which is a situation only very rarely referred to as "stable". I know there's a joke in here about this being literally in the bible, with God using such an insect birth rate swing as a punishment for an entire state. That's how "stable" it is.
- Aurornis 1y agoThe article (which you read, right?) is specifically about developed countries and cites examples like France with fertility rates below 2.1
- nilamo 1y agoFrance isn't all of humanity. France's population can decline without any major impact. Life goes on.
- daedrdev 1y agoThe total number of people living in the world does not matter to local areas that see themselves age rapidly and hollow out as young people leave and they become unable to support the generous welfare we give to the old.
- Qem 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon