Re:Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic co...
by Telemakhos on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:42PM
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I think the answer is the opposite. Consumption of resources is proportional to standard of living: it takes resources to make the most modern lifestyle available. The demographic collapse, however, is evident in highly industrialized societies like Korea, while backwards regions with a low standard of living still have high birthrates. Subsaharan Africa, for example, consumes less than Korea per capita but has a higher birthrate. It seems more likely that higher rates of resource consumption are correlated with lower birthrates.
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Re:Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic co...
by amrocha on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:54PM
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>Consumption of resources is proportional to standard of living
It's not and you know this. It's at best correlated. The resources have to be used effectively, and right now they're definitely not. My quality of life does not go up because using up more resources instead of living sustainably.
Re:Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic co...
by tzekid on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:25AM
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Higher living standards are directly correlated with higher energy and resource consumption.
Unless you're living in a far distant village or in the middle of the woods producing everything you use, you're using an immense amount of resources in your everyday life.
Recycling, not buying the latest tech and curbing your diet don't make any significant dent into the amount of resources you're indirectly consuming by simply living and being active in a well-off, first-word or even "second-world" society.