The world population is expected to start shrinking within this century after hitting a peak in the mid-2080s due to lower fertility levels, particularly in China, according to the latest projection by the United Nations.
The world population is expected to start shrinking within this century after hitting a peak in the mid-2080s due to lower fertility levels, particularly in China, according to the latest projection by the United Nations.
2 billion more people than we have now isn’t much of a decrease… I don’t know about maintaining that trend long enough to actually decrease from what we have now, which is already overpopulated.
Too little, too late.
Climate change means we probably won’t exceed 9 billion anyway.
Once crop failures, drought, and extreme weather cause resource wars, famine, climate refugees, and double digit inflation, the population will start to fall rapidly.
We’re not really overpopulated, we just live unsustainable lifestyles and overconsume especially at the top of the wealth rungs. Why go for population degrowth as the solution before tackling the myriad other city planning, economic, and wealth-inequality-rooted problems?
Is it easier to imagine great famine and to wish for even more declining birth rates than to ask questions like: “should we be moving past capitalism?”
Yeah. 25% more people than we have now is not shrinking by any stretch of the imagination.