Björn Tantau to A Boring Dystopia • 22 days agoI think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopialemmy.mlimagemessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up1987arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up1952arrow-down1imageI think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopialemmy.mlBjörn Tantau to A Boring Dystopia • 22 days agomessage-square175fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552 Just capitalism doing its thing https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/03/medics-apologise-suggesting-brain-dead-women-could-used-surrogate/ https://archive.ph/NFeMU
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•21 days ago the population problem That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
minus-square@Sterile_TechniquelinkEnglish2•21 days ago We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem Oh no, there’s no ‘may’ about it - we’re 100% fucked on that front.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•21 days agoThe “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population. It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak
That’s on track. Children are too expensive now so birth rates everywhere are below replacement rates already or will be soon
We may find the real population problem is we will have fewer smart people to help us fix the climate problem
Oh no, there’s no ‘may’ about it - we’re 100% fucked on that front.
The “may” in that is that we really don’t know which way population will go after we hit peak population.
It might stabilise, it might drop, it might drop precipitously
The prediction I recently saw was the latter, a fast population drop after a peak