Correct, my bad, just googled it. we need 1.75 earth’s to sustain us, not 2… 😂 But that doesn’t change that we only have one. If everyone lived like the people in the US (which is the global direction of things) we would need 4 earth’s. Four earth’s!
And you and I can give our opinions about population growth or decline but what is the professional concensus on the topic? Are we projecting a decline or growth in the next 50 years? Or 100 years?
Got any solutions for when too many people are in one place and not enough in another? I know immigration is scary for some people, but they can get over it. I can think of a few counties that have already.
Here’s a graph of UN projections showing a peak, then decline. Obviously the possible range is still too much, but
– people fear the red line of unconstrained growth but that no longer seems likely
– I fear the green line of destabilizing shrinkage
– we should tweak family support programs to try to land on yellow, where population starts to decline but slowly enough for society to adjust
Edit: sorry bad url or an image search, so let’s go with Wikipedia, showing a range of predictions with population peak sometime in the second half of this century
Correct, my bad, just googled it. we need 1.75 earth’s to sustain us, not 2… 😂 But that doesn’t change that we only have one. If everyone lived like the people in the US (which is the global direction of things) we would need 4 earth’s. Four earth’s!
And you and I can give our opinions about population growth or decline but what is the professional concensus on the topic? Are we projecting a decline or growth in the next 50 years? Or 100 years?
Got any solutions for when too many people are in one place and not enough in another? I know immigration is scary for some people, but they can get over it. I can think of a few counties that have already.
Here’s a graph of UN projections showing a peak, then decline. Obviously the possible range is still too much, but
– people fear the red line of unconstrained growth but that no longer seems likely
– I fear the green line of destabilizing shrinkage
– we should tweak family support programs to try to land on yellow, where population starts to decline but slowly enough for society to adjust
Edit: sorry bad url or an image search, so let’s go with Wikipedia, showing a range of predictions with population peak sometime in the second half of this century
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population