Re:Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction...
by jhanschoo on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:17AM
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Zero fertility would introduce an aging crisis.
Re:Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction...
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @09:25AM
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Which is preferable to a resource exhaustion crisis. Can’t kick the can forever.
Most of the world is at or below a total fertility rate replacement rate (2.1). The trend simply needs to continue for ~10-15 years to lock in the population decline.
Re:Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction...
by User23 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:40PM
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But Subsaharan Africa will more than pick up the slack[1][2].
[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
[2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...
Re:Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction...
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:45PM
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Agree that more work needs to be done for women's rights in that part of the world (empowerment, education, easy access to family planning resources, etc).
https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
Re:Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction...
by ncmncm on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:48AM
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We must hope civilization doesn't collapse before then.
If it does, population will decline faster, but much less comfortably.
I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" very serious and my solution would be to introduce a close to zero birthrate of the extremely overpopulated species of Homo Sapiens. I do not however take this pandemic serious at all and it is NOTHING compared to what is and will happen in the "ghastly future".
We are living in a planetary wide human farm, they told us this was gonna happen! And it will happen again and again until we have devoured the planet.