I agree completely. We should be celebrating the decline of human populations. We'd be in better shape with a few billion less people.Does the human population necessarily need to increase?
It might not be a bad thing for the human population to decrease. With automation and the modern economy, we don't need bodies like we used to. I'm sure that there is an ideal population and this planet is way over it.
The Japanese are adept at robot technology. They would prefer robots over immigration since they are generally xenophobic, racist and abhor immigration to bolster their declining population.Does the human population necessarily need to increase?
It might not be a bad thing for the human population to decrease. With automation and the modern economy, we don't need bodies like we used to. I'm sure that there is an ideal population and this planet is way over it.
For once I agree with you.I agree completely. We should be celebrating the decline of human populations. We'd be in better shape with a few billion less people.
Back in the bad old days, we would let "nature take its course". Now, we mess with nature and that is why the human population keeps growing, maybe past the point of sustainability of this planet. For example, the reason why Ethiopia constantly suffers from starvation is because the human population has outgrown the land's ability to sustain life.Does the human population necessarily need to increase?
Ethiopia suffers from the threat of constant starvation currently because of corrupt geopolitical practices, civil war and corrupt local governments more than anything else.Back in the bad old days, we would let "nature take its course". Now, we mess with nature and that is why the human population keeps growing, maybe past the point of sustainability of this planet. For example, the reason why Ethiopia constantly suffers from starvation is because the human population has outgrown the land's ability to sustain life.
Same thing is happening in medicine where more and more bugs are resistant to anti-biotics.
The human population continues to grow at a good clip. The countries with slow and potentially declining rates of population growth need to address the issue of having fewer people working to pay for the services needed by a growing number of retirees who also are living longer. The high population growth rates are in less developed parts of the world such as Africa where they have problems providing food and water to the existing population. The commodities supercycle had the potential to bring the wealth to help many of these nations address this, but this game saver is not looking so good now.Does the human population necessarily need to increase?
It might not be a bad thing for the human population to decrease. With automation and the modern economy, we don't need bodies like we used to. I'm sure that there is an ideal population and this planet is way over it.
Agreed.Does the human population necessarily need to increase?
It might not be a bad thing for the human population to decrease. With automation and the modern economy, we don't need bodies like we used to. I'm sure that there is an ideal population and this planet is way over it.
Back in the old days they would be pressed ganged into the Royal Navy and sent to fight the French or the Spanish.But for that middle bracket of able bodied 20-50 year olds in their prime screwballing around.... they should be shipped to an isolated island and be asses among themselves.
Do you have a suggestion how we can move forward towards this happy result?. . We could do okay if we were just smarter as humans and could think more in the long term about our actions.