• @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    327 days ago

    Declining population, my ass. There were less than 4.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. That fash-hole is only worried that white people will represent a minority of the future population. Nothing more.

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      116 days ago

      If they Thanos snapped all non-white people on the planet, I guarantee you, the French, European Spanish, Irish, and others will suddenly be non-white and be enslaved to do former jobs. They will insist they dress differently and even tattoo them from infancy to insist they are very genetically different from ‘proper’ whites and thus are only fit for slavery.

    • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Decline population is an actual thing…? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.

      Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.

      Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.

      There’s even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea

      Blue indicates below replacement levels:

      • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        167 days ago

        Well, we’re going to have to figure out how to level off or shrink our population eventually. Might as well do it now while there are still some wild animal species that haven’t gone extinct.

        • @MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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          16 days ago

          A lower population isn’t that bad. It’s just that the transition when you have a very large old population and a small young one is very difficult.

          • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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            6 days ago

            Watch this video, ignore the clickbait sounding title:

            https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

            It completely changed my view on that.

            Basically, without high birth rates, countries are totally screwed. Immigration (which skews young, from high birth rate countries), has softened that issue for the US, hence you don’t hear about it as much here. One can wave their hands and say “elder care and the economy will be automated in the future,” but that’s wishful thinking if you ask me.

            Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical. Honestly we’re ridiculously inefficient now; there’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. And we can use much higher technology to address that.

      • @Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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        -47 days ago

        Still one billion in 1804
        two billion in 1927
        three billion in 1960
        four billion in 1974
        five billion in 1987
        six billion in 1999
        seven billion in 2011
        eight billion in 2022

        Already too many for my taste.
        And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla