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Re:Don't give up on having kids because of climate change by fleddr on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:31PM (#28831344)
No, it's not shrinking at all. You fail to take into account that as many as 4 generations are alive at once, hence an actual decline is very far away.

Likewise, first a population peak of 8 billion was predicted, now it's 10-11 billion.

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Re:Don't give up on having kids because of climate change by martindbp on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:00AM (#28956189)
Let me rephrase, I should have said: rapidly _aging_ population. You're right the population is not shrinking that quickly even in Japan. But it's the aging of the population that is the dangerous part, not the shrinking.
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