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Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by PhasmaFelis on Saturday December 28, 2013 @04:57AM (#6974577)
There are many, many, many people producing children at well above replacement levels, and we are already well above the carrying capacity of our environment. I have no personal guilt at choosing not to have children.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by drivingmissm on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:42AM (#6974771)
Actually most advanced societies are not producing enough children to keep the population stable.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by philwelch on Saturday December 28, 2013 @04:59PM (#6976823)
But they're importing enough immigrants to more than make up the difference.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by nilved on Saturday December 28, 2013 @12:25PM (#6975467)
Which is a very good thing.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by Goronmon on Saturday December 28, 2013 @12:33PM (#6975496)
Is it? Advanced society's dying off isn't something people usual celebrate.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by nilved on Saturday December 28, 2013 @12:42PM (#6975523)
Nobody said dying off, but it's a well-understood fact that humanity is growing at an unsustainable rate.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by PhasmaFelis on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:47PM (#6977012)
Good. There are too many people as it is. Running the birthrate at below replacement levels for a few generations is the only humane way to address that.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by rayiner on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:44AM (#6974961)
We're not well above carrying capacity for the environment, seeing as how mortality rates are going down and not up.
Re:Architect's Dream House: Less Than 200 Square Feet by philwelch on Saturday December 28, 2013 @05:01PM (#6976831)
We're probably above sustainable carrying capacity. One of the great race conditions humanity faces is whether the bulk of the world will develop to a high enough standard of living for birth rates and hence population to drop before we run out of the natural resources we need to feed our current population.