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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by magicalhippo on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:43PM (#40314435)
The issue is that a lot of countries have based everything around growth, including population.

Pensions is a big one, another one is care for elders.

It's not a problem if we had eased up to say 1 billion and stayed there, but the rate of change is quite abrupt.

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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by grecy on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:21AM (#40315489)
> The issue is that a lot of countries have based everything around growth, including population

And it is very, very ,very clear this is a horribly stupid and shortsighted thing to do. It is simply impossible to have constant growth, clearly it is unsustainable.

The system HAS to change. It might be from a slow and steady decline, or it might be a very abrupt change, but it's going to change one way or another.

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