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We are already at unsustainable population levels and the majority of populations are still growing and countries with negative population growth are constantly
by wahsd 12y ago
We are already at unsustainable population levels and the majority of populations are still growing and countries with negative population growth are constantly urged to promote population growth. I realize that fertility rates are dropping and I realize there is inertia, but decreasing acceleration is still not negative acceleration.
- 7952 12y agoBut my point is that there is very little you can do to alter a growth that is already baked into the system. A country with a large youth population will continue to increase in size even if they only have two children per family. I agree that humanity has a very negative ecological impact. But that is a basic facet of human society, not population growth. All industrial economies devastate the native ecosystem in which they exist. Forcing people to abandon the chance of children does not change that. Your argument is trite and does not offer any real insight.