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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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