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RockRaven

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1. The world has plenty of humans on it. Fewer would be a bunch of personal tragedies

Reply to nitpicked (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 04:18 AM

Jun 10

(due to unmet personal preferences) but not any threat to the species. There is a buffer of several billions before that sort of worry is warranted.

The whole premise of the article is that people's wants (whether purely rational or historically contingent expectations) are conflicting with reality.

Um... Yeah... Well, welcome to the world. It is always like this here.

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World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says [View all] nitpicked Jun 10 OP

The world has plenty of humans on it. Fewer would be a bunch of personal tragedies RockRaven Jun 10 #1

The Population Bomb no_hypocrisy Jun 10 #2

This is a good thing. There are too many people as it is. Way too many people. raccoon Jun 10 #3

We're headed to a global demographic crisis. Nonnia Bisnez Jun 10 #4

One example may be a precursor for the future nitpicked Jun 10 #5

And let's not forget about the high schools with community service requirements nitpicked Jun 10 #6

Good, but for the wrong reasons. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 10 #7

I thought AI and robotics were going to take care of all of this. Midnight Writer Jun 10 #8