this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
66 points (94.6% liked)

World News

32283 readers
673 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

It's interesting how different countries are dealing and are effected by the declining worldwide birth rates. The most astounding statistic to me is that wildlife populations have dropped +70% over the past 50 years. Frankly, if humans think that we are in the right to drop wildlife populations by such a staggering amount, a slight drop in human populations only seems like a fair way to balance the scales.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Apparently endless growth is a good thing.

It's the smell!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The sad part is that a technological society built ethically might be sustainable however we’ve blown it with run away climate change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Agreed. Feels like grief whenever I think about it knowing the current trajectory, to be honest.