Many nations being below replacement level is certainly new.
Generally humanity has stayed around replacement level or grown exponentially (especially post agriculture)
It’s a shift that’s only disastrous because of how we organize our society. It should be good to have less people to provide for, but it just doesn’t work with this idea of exponential growth
Many nations being below replacement level is certainly new.
Generally humanity has stayed around replacement level or grown exponentially (especially post agriculture)
It’s a shift that’s only disastrous because of how we organize our society. It should be good to have less people to provide for, but it just doesn’t work with this idea of exponential growth
Yes I think adjusting to the new pattern seems more sensible than trying to maintain exponential growth because it’s what we’re used to.