What happens when the world's population stops going up?

[Anonymous]

I think it was calculated that 10 billion is the max population possible to be supported on Earth. Fewer would be better. There were only like 1 billion around the year 1800 and we have gone up to 8 billion in just 200 years. Crazy!

[Anonymous]

Before I hit the paywall, I read that population may peak in the 2080s.

[Anonymous]

The Georgia Guidestones spoke of this but then some idiot blew them up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it was calculated that 10 billion is the max population possible to be supported on Earth. Fewer would be better. There were only like 1 billion around the year 1800 and we have gone up to 8 billion in just 200 years. Crazy!

Whi made this calculation?

[Anonymous]

Less people will be wonderful for the universe. Do you pay attention to the news? It's just too many stupid folks among us. Less is so much better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Less people will be wonderful for the universe. Do you pay attention to the news? It's just too many stupid folks among us. Less is so much better.

+1000

It’s so obvious that I just can’t understand why some people don’t see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Georgia Guidestones spoke of this but then some idiot blew them up.

I see it’s really been a priority for law enforcement to catch whoever was responsible

[Anonymous]

Nobody was going round in 1800 complaining that there weren’t enough people. One billion is a lot. 10 billion is too much.

[Anonymous]

We’d have to address some economic issues and old people care issues, but it’s not like we need all 8 billion of us.

Sometimes I idly imagine that if some superplanetary office decreed that the population needed to be reduced to 4 billion or 3 billion or 2 billion and that the burden of disappearance was to be shared equally around the world, would I make the cut? I don’t think I would. But that’s just idle and depressing daydreaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’d have to address some economic issues and old people care issues, but it’s not like we need all 8 billion of us.

Sometimes I idly imagine that if some superplanetary office decreed that the population needed to be reduced to 4 billion or 3 billion or 2 billion and that the burden of disappearance was to be shared equally around the world, would I make the cut? I don’t think I would. But that’s just idle and depressing daydreaming.

Avengers Endgame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everything will improve when the population decreases.

Except our standard of living.

It depends on what standards you're talking about. Economically, sure there will be some need to sacrifice compared to previous generations. But by every other metric we will be better off.

[Anonymous]

Republicans will become pro immigration for economic reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The air will be better to breathe, there will be less overcrowding. The housing market won't be as bad. Lots of good things that I wish I would be here too see.

Slowing down the rate of damage is not the same as getting better.

[Anonymous]

Another Gen Xers who thinks this will be great. I remember the Time cover when the population hit 5 billion.
We need to move away from the Ponzi scheme theory of economic development.
And robots/AI are goin to replace so many jobs that humanity won’t need as many people to power the machine of economicron growth. The times did an article about Peeps last year that said that they now make as much candy with 1 person as used to take 15-20 people. That’s a really simple example but it’s gojng to be the same with almost every profession. There are not going to be jobs for 10 billion people. And with climate change rendering much of the world uninhabitable it’s not clear the will be food for them.
We should be making birth control free and accessible across the globe. It’s only because of crazy evangelicals and the Catholic Church (sigh, I’m Catholic) that we are not. So instead we will deal with hundreds of years of refugee crises and migration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’d have to address some economic issues and old people care issues, but it’s not like we need all 8 billion of us.

Sometimes I idly imagine that if some superplanetary office decreed that the population needed to be reduced to 4 billion or 3 billion or 2 billion and that the burden of disappearance was to be shared equally around the world, would I make the cut? I don’t think I would. But that’s just idle and depressing daydreaming.

Interesting to think what metric they’d use. Maybe “keep anyone who never cheated on their taxes.” Or “ditch anyone who ever forgot to wish their mom happy Mother’s Day” ….we always assume that this sci fi scansion would be based on IQ or professional aptitude but what if it was based on who is not a d—ck? There are so many better ways to do it than Thanos’s random snap.