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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by jsprogrammer on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:26PM (#10792697)
>Society doesn't need 8 billion humans anymore

This is self-contradictory. Society is exactly the humans that exist.

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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by kyllo on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:41PM (#10792719)
It think it's more like, human society is collectively deciding that optimum human population size is less than current size, and adjusting reproductive behavior accordingly.
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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by jsprogrammer on Friday December 25, 2015 @10:21PM (#10793147)
Isn't the human population increasing?
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Re:The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles from Mom by kyllo on Saturday December 26, 2015 @03:28AM (#10793662)
It is still increasing, but the slope of the curve is decreasing. It will peak in the next few decades and then start to decrease if current reproductive trends continue.
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