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    Overpopulation is one of the most bizarre, even dangerous urban myths of the modern west.

    In fact, the opposite is happening, birthrates in the west have dropped dramatically. The head count only increases in the third wolrld, western civilisation is checking out.

    Elon Musk compares this demographic implosion to the black plague, saying the black plague population wipe was nowhere near current slump.

    • How many people does the world need though? If you look historically, the population of Europe is almost twice what it was a century ago, and several timesyuekit
    • what it was a few centuries ago. So when you take the long view a small correction isn't necessarily so alarming.yuekit
    • it's wealth. once a population gets rich, it stops making more than 2 kids per family.
      we witnessed this the last 20years with the growth in china and india.
      uan
    • the growth in pop. in afrika will increase in the next 20-30 till a healthy economy is reached...by then world pop. will peak at 11 billions and no more.uan
    • i recall that from a TED hans rosling presentation that dates from 11 years ago.uan
    • ^he's dead now. -1 pop.PeterPancake

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