The Economics of Falling Populations

Re:The Economics of Falling Populations by chrisco255 on Monday April 05, 2021 @04:37AM (#26696617)

The west produces more than enough food for itself and then some. Obviously food is a renewable so you will never run out of it. Wood? Renewable and has been sustainably farmed in the west for over 100 years. Then there are materials like Aluminum and Iron that there are massive stores of in earth's crust that could never be depleted.

There are only certain things like oil that are not renewable but even the plastics and petroleum based products have plant based alternative versions, they are simply more expensive to produce at this time.

I worry about conservation of natural habitats. But that is a bigger problem in developing countries than currently in the West.

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Re:The Economics of Falling Populations by Hammershaft on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:58PM (#26703104)

> Obviously food is a renewable so you will never run out of it.

Food relies on soil, a resource that we are depleting between 10x to 40x the replacement rate. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-...

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Re:The Economics of Falling Populations by concordDance on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:22AM (#26696890)

> But that is a bigger problem in developing countries than currently in the West.

That'a because the west destroyed all the big animal habitats centuries ago. Did you know there used to be lions in europe?

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Re:The Economics of Falling Populations by chrisco255 on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:39AM (#26697004)

According to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe you have to go back to Ancient Greek and Roman times to find lions in Europe. But also states some species went extinct in early Holocene 11K years ago after end of the last glacial period.

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