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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by colechristensen on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:45PM (#40324090)
It’s nothing about agreement. Everywhere has declining birth rates once they hit a modern standard of living for at least a couple of generations. Not because people think fewer children are a good idea, but because having many children in modern world is unpleasant and very few want more than two.

I think it mostly has to do with increasing desires for a high standard of living when it becomes possible and the pressure of high density cities making lots of kids an unattractive prospect.

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Re:The World Has (Probably) Passed Peak Pollution by jl6 on Saturday May 11, 2024 @03:44AM (#40326655)
While we do observe a trend towards lower fertility rates as wealth/health/modernity increases, this isn’t universal. For example, there is a big gap between the fertility rates of religious and non-religious people in the arguably modern USA. It only takes one such group to carry on the tradition of exponential growth.
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