• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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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.

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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