• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    That’s going to be an issue in 10-20 years. Who the fuck knows what it’s going to be like 75 years from now. We’re talking about a span of time as long as Communist China has existed. 75 years ago computers barely existed.

    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Science, science can predict it. We have models that were created over 40 years ago that predicted current global warming trends.

      We have models that accurately predict population trends as well. But it’s pretty simple, when you have an agrarian based economy people tend to have many children because they are helpful around the farm. When a society urbanizes having a dozen kids is now a burden and birth rates plummet.

      China urbanized within a generation. Stack on the effects of the one child policy and they are no longer reproducing at a rate to replace their current population.