Housing is gonna get cheaper, right? right?!
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Unpopular truth: We don't need 8 billion humans. We don't even need 1 billion. Not for a terrestrial species occupying only one planet.
Ideally, the global population would stay about the same, but slowly rise and fall in seasons like the temperature.
This is a windfall that we should use to sort out the food distribution problem. But we won't.
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“In many ways, tumbling fertility rates are a success story, reflecting not only better, easily available contraception but also many women choosing to delay or have fewer children, as well as more opportunities for education and employment.”