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Re:Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as de... by hunglee2 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:28AM (#30789438)
extinction is indeed the risk. Population collapse is slow decline, steep fall, then exponential decrease. Agree with you on danger to the carrying capacity of the earth, but moderating population size seems instead to set an irreversible trend
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Re:Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as de... by FerociousTimes on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:30AM (#30790306)
> Population collapse is slow decline, steep fall, then exponential decrease.

You make it sound like this progression is inevitable like every slow decline is followed by a steep fall and then finally exponential bust which seems not very convincing.

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Re:Nearly 75% of US counties lost population last year as de... by FpUser on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:32AM (#30789491)
There is no proof it is irreversible as we have ever better means of control.
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