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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (5 children)

With how unaffordable life is in general, it’s not exactly surprising that people are having fewer kids. They’re a giant drain on your already scarce resources.

Frankly I was also hoping for corona to… do a little housekeeping as it were. But it didn’t really do much in terms of actual population decline.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Without societal change, even a die-off as extreme as half of everyone dying will have absolutely no effect beyond the immediate term. Just look at the Black Death as an example: about half of Europe among others died over its period and yet we are still facing overpopulation issues not 7 centuries later.

The general populace just needs to learn and understand that maybe staying well above replacement level is not good, actually.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Stop down voting him, he's right. Earth day is on April 22, so we would need to shrink earths population to a third in order to make our current way of living sustainable... (Shrink the rich first)

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