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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by ptr on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:06AM (#24988627)
If every woman gives birth to less than ~2.1 children, we're shrinking. Is having <= 2 children painful and ugly?
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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by wwright on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:17AM (#24988710)
Humans live for decades. Catastrophic climate change is less than a generation away. It would take hundreds of years for the population to shrink enough to stop it.
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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by TeMPOraL on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:25AM (#24988766)
That's not how "natural self-regulation" works. People aren't PID regulators and don't suddenly adjust their fertility to not exceed the carrying capacity of the environment.

Natural self-regulation means hitting resource limits, followed by sudden and drastic mass dying off, through wars and starvation.

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Re:U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord by afjl on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:02AM (#25036146)
Yes, a decreasing tax base is terrible for societies.
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