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Actually, it's your viewpoint that's stupid.

No one wants more humans on the planet. We only need to account for humans that are yet to be born, before we hit the peak around ~10B.

And before you start blaming countries for high birth rates (which is the typical ignorant and possibly racist viewpoint), read some books to know that birth rates have dropped drastically since WW2 due to increase in education and healthcare ACROSS THE WORLD, and they are still dropping. We have already reached peak child [1]. We will reach peak human at around ~10B according to latest reports, which is much less than what we can actually support in the future with renewable tech. So everything's mostly good, get educated.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24835822 [2] https://www.gapminder.org/



Fewer, Richer, Greener


What's your point? The birth rates are already reducing. Do you want war and genocide to reduce the population faster?


My point is Google the book Fewer, Richer, Greener


Ah good one, will check it out. "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling (from the links I posted earlier) also makes the same point.




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