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Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by jacquesm on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:41PM (#28079461)
They could very well be different than all of the preceding ones in the sense that there could be less of them than the preceding generation which is something that hasn't happened since mankind started to reproduce in earnest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Past_populati...

Famines, pandemics and wars are mere speed bumps compared to the kind of impact this can have. And if not the next generation then maybe the one after it but this will not go on for much longer before some kind of limit is reached.

It's all the same until suddenly it's not.

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Re:Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of... by BeFlatXIII on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:02PM (#28079761)
Homo sapiens is simply not equipped to handle exponential growth when planning for the future. Luckily, it seems that the birth rate slowdown is a global phenomenon and it’s likely that the peak population will be well below three times the current population. We are not deer who have no other option but to reproduce at full capacity until the population collapses.
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