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I'm not sure why this gets flagged, because it's very interesting and concerns all of us.

I think it's great, in my mind, there's too many people on the planet already, and we're stressing the biospehere near the breaking point in multiple ways.

9-10 billion people is plenty. This news is a welcome bit of good news in an otherwise scary future.

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Agreed, it's curious the article never mentions sustainability or benefits of not having uncontrolled population growth, but uses negative language for the trend (collapse, doom, disappearing..)

Yeah, some people are very alarmed that population growth, and thus economic growth might slow down. Elon Musk for example, is very alarmed about it.

I think we have to find a sustainable future, or it will find us on terms we won't like at all. This is a good thing.

I want you to ask yourself, how scary would it be if the population was 70% over the age of 60? You have three scenarios: old people working themselves into a grave, starving in the streets, or you're being taxed like a slave at 70% just to feed them. That sounds like a really scary future to me.

It beats the alternatives. Their children will have to help, as is common in many parts of the world.

How does it beat the alternatives?

The alternative is poluation grows unbounded until we destroy the biosphere and the wars, famines, and disease that follows finally limit the growth of the human population in a way we're unable and unwilling to do.

Infinite growth is incomaptible with a finite world.

This is so much better than that.

I believe that it is actually just a racist / eugenics dog whistle because if you look at who is actually making babies, it is Africans

There's always one moron who wants to bring race into the discussion

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