Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
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Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
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Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#2Ok I have to ask but why is HN flooded with pseudo scientific climate change/ population control far right bullshit today?
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#3I had a long conversation with an anthropologist so studied the emergence of agriculture, who argued that it wasn't invented but instead adopted by necessity.
He pointed out the huge host of health problems that came with agriculture: hard labor; poor quality food; diseases from living densely.
Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture until well into the industrial revolution, with the adoption of public health.
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#4The article is heavy on criticism of population decline and light on an argument of why it is so bad.
As a parent in the USA I also don’t buy the argument that it is all education and birth control driving these changes. Many of my acquaintances simply cannot afford the costs of multiple children. And for others climate anxiety makes them question the future.
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#5"The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found."
Has not been true so far, I wonder at what population amount, will this start working ?
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#6I had a long conversation with an anthropologist so studied the emergence of agriculture, who argued that it wasn't invented but instead adopted by necessity. He pointed out the huge host of health problems that came with agriculture: hard labor; poor quality food; diseases from living densely. Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture until well into the industrial revolution, with the adoption of pub…
> Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture
based on what data exactly?
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#7I had a long conversation with an anthropologist so studied the emergence of agriculture, who argued that it wasn't invented but instead adopted by necessity. He pointed out the huge host of health problems that came with agriculture: hard labor; poor quality food; diseases from living densely. Life expectancy dropped from the adoption of agriculture until well into the industrial revolution, with the adoption of pub…
So what were the necessities that prompted the adoption of agriculture?
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#8Too few humans? I see this said a lot but it’s so counter-intuitive to me that humankind will be worse off in the long term with fewer of us around.
Re: Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
#9"The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found." Has not been true so far, I wonder at what population amount, will this start working ?
The article provides zero evidence for the thesis and it is baffling to see it upvoted.
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#10Yes yes, more people means more progress which means line goes up which means we will all live in a utopia or something like that. That's why everyone is trying to escape their country and conduct a huge trek to reach countries like uhh India, China and so on and so forth.