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Thank goodness! I hope this is true. Please let it be true, that the population will decrease in the example countries and elsewhere.

Seems to be about the only thing, that can protect us from further overpopulating the planet with more humans. Even better, if it is caused by more education and more similar or equal opportunity for women. We should start celebrating women, who choose not to get children or at least not more than 1 child as climate saviors too.



Agreed!

A great resource on the subject is Countdown by Alan Weisman.

I did a few podcast episodes on my Leadership and the Environment podcast on population:

https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...

http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/alan-weisman

For those who think we can grow forever, Tom Murphy's Do The Math blog covers it in his post Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist


+1

Its about time that "be fruitful and multiply" comes to an end.




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