Yes and no, the way our society is built/structured can’t handle negative growth. A lot of infrastructure and way of life/quality of life would suffer massively. That being said, pop growth also can’t go up forever (while limited to earth). We actually have a ton of livable land left too, cities have learned how to be so super dense that it’s eating all the rural area’s populations in quickly developing places (It’s where all the jobs and opportunities are -cities). Estimates suggest we will top off around 10 billion people
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Azzu@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Why scary? Wouldn’t it be good if the human population didn’t increase more?
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
In theory, we know how to build super dense city. In practice, we build gigantic suburban sprawl.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The west is already on it, how do we propagate it elsewhere?
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Fertility rates are on the decrease everywhere.This doesn’t mean that population is decreasing, population increases as long as the fertility rate is superior to 1, which is still the case in a large portion of the world, but I think humanity on a global scale is expected to go beneath that treshold around 2050-2060.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s actually around 2.1 to keep the status quo.