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Re:Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 by EnigmaFlare on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:27PM (#39908446)
Back then, population was at capacity, so the plague opened up previously-used capacity to the survivors. Today is completely different. We're not at capacity and won't benefit from fewer (educated/productive) people, which are exactly the ones not reproducing.
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Re:Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 by itishappy on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:51PM (#39908699)
> We're not at capacity

By many accounts we're over. Got a source?

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Re:Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 by EnigmaFlare on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:56PM (#39911286)
Global growth rate today about 1% per year which is 10x higher than it was in Europe in the middle ages. It would be hovering around 0 if we were at capacity. In Europe, it was 0 on average between 1300 and 1400 (black death), so they were still growing otherwise but just barely compared to now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

You could speculate that our current population isn't sustainable because it depends on non-renewable resources, but that's on a longer time scale than we're talking about here.

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Re:Population tipping point could arrive by 2030 by throwfish3000 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:34PM (#39908521)
We're not at capacity?
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