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The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided
(www.theguardian.com)
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Apparently endless growth is a good thing. How the planet is supposed to continue to provide and survive a continuous expansion of Homo sapiens is beyond me. The only way out is to decrease population growth and refactor the world economy away from endless growth.
Really, we should just work towards keeping the world population stable and bring everyone out of poverty
Not that we have to try particularly hard, the population is stabilizing off by itself
We're 8 billion people on the planet, we aren't running out anytime soon
The sad part is that a technological society built ethically might be sustainable however we’ve blown it with run away climate change.
Agreed. Feels like grief whenever I think about it knowing the current trajectory, to be honest.