boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoHumanity will shrink in the future: 97% of countries will experience negative growth by 2100english.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1372arrow-down17
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minus-squareRGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoBoth. Economies suffer when the populations cannot replenish workforces and when average age gets older and older. You end up with too many people to support and not enough people to do the work.
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIsn’t that a temporary thing though, eventually that hump will pass and we’d be down to more sustainable population levels. I’d rather it happens naturally because of birth rates than because half the planet becomes unsurvivable.
Both. Economies suffer when the populations cannot replenish workforces and when average age gets older and older.
You end up with too many people to support and not enough people to do the work.
Isn’t that a temporary thing though, eventually that hump will pass and we’d be down to more sustainable population levels. I’d rather it happens naturally because of birth rates than because half the planet becomes unsurvivable.