I don’t think we need growth but we need to sustain. Adults need to be able to create enough value for themselves, children, and elderly. So there’s a number (that changes w variables like child birth death rate and life expectancy) that you want to be greater than. Its the “above a threshold” that matters
@erik wrote a thoughtful piece about the case for population growth also this chart 😬 https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/more-people-is-better
We do to continue as species and keep demand for whatever we create. Also, this will be a different story for each region / country. I’ve attached my visual based on World Bank’s DataBank projected population growth rates until to 2030.
Depends where you live atm If South Korea or Japan the answer is a yes definitely and as soon as they can get it Demographic pyramids around the world starting to looking very top heavy
for the advancement and spread of mankind throughout the cosmos yea, and so the old folks are taken care of
You need to look here for the answer ser https://opensea.io/collection/overpopulated-symphonies-by-alkan-avcioglu
Well I look at every part of the world going thru population decline and I’m absolutely sure I don’t want that. The circle of life has to close!
yesterday at ETHcc i discussed this with a guy who had a "fighting agging" teeshirt. he probably would have said yes.
Not necessarily. As others said before, I think it depends on the "country" and current population. Regarding Earth, it is a finite space. So, there is a limit. My question is, Can we give high quality life standards to current population (or medium) ? Can a global economy achieve it? Country segmented does not.
A world with 10x less population growth would be a world in which there's an 81% chance neither of us would have ever existed.
This is a pretty great resource to easily visualize macro-trends on population growth curves and demographic breakdowns across nations and regions: https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2023/
If you like science, art, culture and all sorts of non-rivalrous benefits, then def. These become economical with a large population, otherwise not.
When I look up at the stars I'm the night sky, they're very pretty, but mostly dead space. I want to live in a galaxy where there are literally millions of Rembrandts, Feynmans, Gauss', etc born every second. Intelligent life in all its forms is beautiful, and I want to see it light up our universe.
What kind of world do you want to live in? I’m inferring you want a world with less people, could be nice. Is the fundamental issue that you don’t want a fucked up planet? In which case population reduction alone will not solve.