Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s

Re:Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s by hoseja on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:19AM (#37390681)

I still maintain that the current (hopefully slowing) unprecedented industrial population explosion - it increased fourfold in just the last hundred years! - was orchestrated by empires to have enough bodies to throw into meatgrinders of total war.

There's too many people. This is insane. Why isn't everyone freaking out. Slow down.

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Re:Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s by joshuahedlund on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:24AM (#37390717)

> orchestrated by empires

What does this mean? Birthrates were not higher in the last hundred years than previously, We just got better at keeping kids from dying. In fact these days governments are begging people to raise birthrates and failing quite spectacularly at doing so.

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Re:Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s by flappyeagle on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:23AM (#37390707)

You first.

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Re:Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s by hoseja on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:30AM (#37390774)

Wouldn't you know it, I don't plan on having eleven children. I'd be glad to afford just a couple.

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Re:Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s by jWhick on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:17AM (#37391214)

if, during the past, only the people that could afford children, had them, there would be no people today.

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