Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'

Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by richardknop on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:15AM (#15890369)

Well yes, I agree with you. China, India and don't forget about Africa (most countries in Africa now have average age around 20-25 years old and are multiplying populations very quickly).

Not sure what can be done about it. I guess mother nature will sort that out once we run out of resources. It will be like a defensive reaction of an organism, human race might just get purged from the Earth.

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by ForHackernews on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:18AM (#15891260)

> Not sure what can be done about it.

All you have to is educate women and give them reliable access to birth control.

In every country where women are empowered to control their own lives and their own fertility, they have chosen to have fewer children.

We don't need some horrible Malthusian resource crunch, we just need feminism.

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by thanksgiving on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:36AM (#15890672)

I don't want children. I imagine I'm not the only one. Get a dog or a cat or a goldfish or a cactus instead.

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by richardknop on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:10AM (#15890778)

99.9% of people disagree with you. You might not be the only one but you are part of tiny minority which doesn't influence anything. For every person like you who doesn't want kids there are hundred families somewhere in developing world with 5-8 children.

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by andrewaylett on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:46AM (#15890846)

Not as many as you might think: Total Fertility Rate drops rapidly as survival rate and economic activity picks up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#/media/Fi...

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by elygre on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:47AM (#15891345)

Hans Rosling had a great TED talk or two on the subject!

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by jdietrich on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:52AM (#15891605)

The UN forecast that the global population will reach an absolute maximum of about 11 billion by 2100. Some forecasts are even more conservative, suggesting a peak of 9 billion by 2050. The global birth rate has peaked and is now in overall decline, with most of the developed world being well below the replacement rate. Most of the population growth we'll see over the next century is simply due to more people living longer lives.

The fertility rate in China is massively below replacement at 1.57 births per woman. India is barely above replacement at 2.4. The fertility rate in India today is lower than the fertility rate was in the US in 1970. The global fertility rate has halved in 50 years. Even in the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the fertility rate is declining. The fertility rate in Rwanda has more than halved from 8.4 in 1980 to 3.8 today. As far as I can ascertain, Niger is the country on earth with a persistently high fertility rate.

Population growth is a solved problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

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Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' by mathgeek on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:27AM (#15891121)

When it comes to the environment being the source of change, you may not have a choice in discrimination.

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