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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe instead of more housing we should look at fewer people? How many IS sustainable? Can we incentivize a lower population overall?[/quote]

This is the way. The problem is the entire economy is based on endless growth, so there would be an "adjustment" at first. [/quote]

Long-term this looks like what's happening naturally. Birthrates are down pretty much everywhere. It probably won't happen fast enough to have a huge impact on housing issues before we die, but US population will probably start declining in our grandchildren's lifetimes.[/quote]

The US's one weird trick is that a sizeable chunk of the world wants to live here, stymying DCUM commenters that want this to be a miserable degrowth society[/quote]

Even the places that send immigrants to the US have declining growth rates. Population decline is almost certainly coming for the whole world, including the US.[/quote]

Ok. Can we have density while you await your inevitable miserable heaven?[/quote]

No.[/quote]

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