Replying to Avatar Mike Dilger ☑️

Population growth is slowing way down. Some people are worried about this.

But I think it is a good thing. The Earth has some carrying capacity and if we go beyond it people will start starving. That is not fun. Yes, we can engineer a higher carrying capacity as we did during the green revolution. But there are still limits.

Population is still growing. It is still growing in the USA. It is still growing in NZ. It is very much still growing in sub-Saharan Africa. Current estimates put the peak at 10 billion.

The problem with population contraction that most of you and I will feel is that all the government (and non-government) Ponzi schemes will collapse. Economies will be rubbish, growth will be stalwart. But you can accustom yourself to such times.

The idea that we need to start having more babies is misguided. We could push out the inevitable, but we can't avoid it happening eventually.
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Bond008 3mo ago 💬 1

Most of earth does not contain humans. The more humans that are born the higher the chance more inventors or people that create or inspire new philosophies are born. If we embrace nuclear power and robots we can dramatically increase our efficiency. This frees up time for people to solve more problems. I highly doubt the earth can only suppprt 10 billion humans.

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umni 3mo ago

I completely agree. On top of that, think of the effect in a world without Central banks, prices decreasing everywhere. Allowing for a population boom, creating more people with more free time to solve more problems.

Bunch of positive feedback loops coming together.