Korea's birthrate in July dropped to an all-time low, further highlighting the country's swift transition into an aging society.
  • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.eeEnglish
    2210·
    1 year ago

    Sorry but this is a good thing. Earths population is too large for the resources available.

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
      144·
      1 year ago

      My instinct is that you’re right, but I wonder if what we’re really saying is that earth’s population is too large under the currently dominant socioeconomic and lifestyle constructs.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s clearly the current lifestyle. Africans are destroying the world much less than the industrialized world because they’re too poor to live the climate-wrecking lifestyle of the West.

        A key issue though is that it takes a while for lifestyles to change. The higher the population, the quicker the switch needs to be done to avoid catastrophic consequences.

        If the Earth’s population were 100 million, it might be fine to take a century to switch away from fossil fuels. But at nearly 10 billion, if it takes a century, the results will be catastrophic.