Coming population collapse

[zipplewrath]

Interesting article saying that populations will be drastically lower at the end of the century and the trouble it will cause. We're building walls within years of needing to beg them to come.

[link:https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-53409521|

[Goodheart]

1. Excellent.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Mother Earth will rejoice!!

[leftieNanner]

5. She will

Because she's obviously REALLY PISSED OFF at us now!

We have not been good stewards of her bounty.

[Blue_true]

6. Not really. The Earth is like the the quiet person in a bar, who is a vicious fighter.

He or she doesn’t start trouble and try to avoid it, but when trouble comes, they are left standing over knocked out bodies.

The Earth will deal with whatever we throw at it, overpopulation, underpopulation, pollution, nuclear war, pestilence. End the end, the Earth will move on in time, with or without us.

[Victor_c3]

3. Sounds like nothing but good news to me

With the advancement in AI and robots performing complex tasks such as surgeries, I’m not worried about who’ll be there to take care of the aging.

Just think about how this would change our growth-dependent economy. Consumption will invariable decrease as well as markets for goods. This’ll have a huge impact on how our economies operate.

Perhaps I’m just overly optimistic about the future, but I don’t doubt that we’ll be able to overcome the pressing issue of climate change and others. I wish I could be around to see what that will look like I’m another 100 years. It’ll be exciting, that’s for sure.

[Goodheart]

8. Our biggest threat will be machines with both intelligence and sentience.

They might keep us as pets?

[Squinch]

4. I have no problem with this.

[raccoon]

7. Better for the environment. With AI there won't be nearly

As many jobs available. There are too many people in the world now.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Even with the population "collapse"

there will still be about a billion more people in 2100 than there are now.

With what we are currently doing to the environment, I think it's possible that there could be a much more dramatic crash than what they're projecting.

I'm personally far more worried about the mass extinctions happening now and in the future.

The tripling of population in Sub Saharan Africa means that all the African great apes are almost certainly doomed, along with most other African wildlife.

[lame54]

11. Expect a surge 9 months from lockdown