Post #2217474
2026-04-01 12:41 UTC
The current trend on world population has us hitting 10.3 billion in 2080, and then it starts to recede. The idea of an overpopulated world comes from a book written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb”. The actual problem we’re facing in the west is a rapidly aging population, and birth rates that are falling off a cliff.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971
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@over_clox@lemmy.world 2026-04-01 12:47
There's no such thing as rapidly aging, there's exactly one year per year, we don't age any faster nor slower. Declining birth rate, sure, but no such thing as rapidly aging.