On a less dire note, maybe fertility dropping leads to something like a population equilibrium rather than completely overshooting our habitats’ carrying capacity.
there’s twice as many of us as there were 50 years ago, i think we can handle a quarter of a birth per adult for a while without any biological problems.
i see no imperative to have 8 billion rather than 4 billion or any other amount, just don’t do genocide and eugenics etc.
On a less dire note, maybe fertility dropping leads to something like a population equilibrium rather than completely overshooting our habitats’ carrying capacity.
Yeah that’s a valid point. I know people who are having s real tough time conceiving, so I’m sure that plays a part in the declining birth rates too.
To your point, it would be great if that was an inadvertent positive tho…
there’s twice as many of us as there were 50 years ago, i think we can handle a quarter of a birth per adult for a while without any biological problems.
i see no imperative to have 8 billion rather than 4 billion or any other amount, just don’t do genocide and eugenics etc.
Too late. I have invented eugenocide. And it’s inevitable due to a cluster of subreddits I’ve created.
By fertility here I mean how many children people end up having, not their medical status.
But yeah that’s a thing too, especially if people are trying for children later in life.