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The idea that the planet is wounded due to too many people and needs to be "healed" is complete nonsense. We aren't close to carrying capacity. You're taking various complaints ("immigration policy," "no support for women," "people work too much") and connecting them to a totally unrelated phenomenon (declining population). People are not deciding against children for rational reasons.

I think it mostly has to do with social atomization. Cultures have always supported marriage and childcare. That's less true around the world. As a result people are getting married less often and having fewer children, often against their own desires.




Carrying capacity? We are already well beyond the “carrying capacity” in some very basic resources like carbon emissions


No we aren't. Carbon-emitting technologies are not necessary for human life in the long-term.


> We aren't close to carrying capacity.

Yet I have no trust in any governing body that exists when we do.




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