12 Feb 23
@a-unique-nickname saidLittering will also be added to the list.
No, i genuinely want to decrease the world's population, people are annoying and they destroy everything they touch.
Littering will also be added to the list.
Yawn
12 Feb 23
@a-unique-nickname said2.1 is simply replacement, not a growing population.
2.1 is simply replacement, not a growing population. Once we get the population down to a more manageable number i completely agree 2.1 kids on average is the way forward. But to prevent issues from an aging population drastic action needs to be taken.
I am not aware of anyone supporting the idea of "a growing population" on this thread - or indeed anyone I've interacted with in recent years.
12 Feb 23
@a-unique-nickname saidOnce we get the population down to a more manageable number i completely agree 2.1 kids on average is the way forward.
2.1 is simply replacement, not a growing population. Once we get the population down to a more manageable number i completely agree 2.1 kids on average is the way forward. But to prevent issues from an aging population drastic action needs to be taken.
The population is "down to a more manageable number" as long as the fertility rate is 2.1 children per woman, regardless of the number.
If you have a rate that is significantly lower than the population replacement rate, then that melon-scoop taken out of the country's population profile is going to be disastrous when people of a certain age are lacking in numbers and there are not enough taxpayers and consumers in the economy.
@a-unique-nickname said8 billion people is not a manageable number
The population is currently over 8 billion people (unofficially but accurate), that is not a manageable number. Quite the opposite.
I think it is. I think 10 billion will be entirely manageable. The challenge will be how to mitigate and then block rich powerful nations from siphoning off and hoarding obscene proportions of the energy, the food, the water, and the resources that are available and which their compliant corporate-neo-colonial national clients enable them to do.
You can prattle on all you like about killing smokers, queue-jumpers and litterbugs if you think that's the key to it.
