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13047917, The concern is that present trends could lead to exctintion Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Sun Jul-24-16 07:41 AM
if continue unabated over the long term.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/world_population_may_actually_start_declining_not_exploding.html
>where women are now making decisions about the number of >children they would like to have >(thank you, contraceptives!) >whereas the avg number of children was something ridiculous >like +6 >its falling >and i say not fast enough >the worry is that the older age (dependent) population is >rising much faster >and its going to be very difficult to support that population >in future >the concern is not that there are too few human beings on this >planet >its why i support more relaxed migration policies. >
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