• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, population decline doesn’t automatically mean extinction. Eternal growth is not possible. The system should not rely on perpetual population growth.

    • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      1 year ago

      Population decline due to low birth rates has never happened. Population declines have always been due to disease or war or something like that, taking the adults and leaving a young population behind. It’s not about a system, an aging population with low birth rates probably amounts to population collapse, but we are in uncharted territory and can’t know for sure how it plays out.