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0 pointsOrbitRock5y ago0 comments

Those are good things.

We don’t want 12-14 billion humans. The biosphere is already under enormous stress.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11018

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The UN has predicted that population will be stable around 10-12 billion by 2100. There is no reason to think the planet can't support that.

The places where the population is still growing don't pay the slightest attention to the anti-natalist stuff linked above. Population is already stable or declining in places where people care about that stuff.

clarkmoody5y ago

Who is "we" and how do "we" get to decide how many humans there should be?

OrbitRockOP5y ago

No one is forcing anybody.

It’s more just sharing things like birth control technology and education.

This whole discussion is actually a sort of win-win scenario, because what proves to lower birth rates more effectively than anything is improved regional health, education, and wealth, so helping along those factors is the biggest impact.

https://fs.blog/2016/04/hans-rosling-population-growth/

_iyig5y ago

China has forcibly implemented strict birth control policy for decades. They're also forcibly sterilizing ethnic minority populations, Uyghurs in particular:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/china-xin...

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