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veen  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Long, Slow Death of Religion

I recommend watching Hans Rosling's The Overpopulation Myth for more thoughts on global population demographics.

I'd also like to point out that worries about overpopulation have been going on for centuries and that it has been used as an excuse for terrible things ranging from eugenics to screwing over the poor. It's not an unimportant issue nor is it wrong to worry about it but it's definitely a problem with a history.





Trombone  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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OftenBen  ·  2886 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Something would need to change us from the path we're on, imo, and it's not clear what that may be as of yet.

My depressed brain has one likely candidate. Catastrophe.

veen  ·  2885 days ago  ·  link  ·  

More realistic: misery for billions of people not living in colder, Western countries. The sad part is that you and I will probably be fine whereas someone in sub-Saharan Africa will likely perish, even though we are way more responsible for it.

OftenBen  ·  2885 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That doesn't count as catastrophe?

veen  ·  2885 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not the kind of catastrophe that'll get us to change from the path we're on, I think.