• psud@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    the population problem

    That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon

    We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem

      Oh no, there’s no ‘may’ about it - we’re 100% fucked on that front.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        4 days ago

        The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.

        It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously

        The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak