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It would be hard to sustain this level of growth even if there wasn't a tiny amount of individuals hoarding resources.
Now now, if you keep that line of thinking up you might get banned for being malthusian.
I mean...
According to this theory, poverty and inequality will increase as the price of assets and scarce commodities goes up due to fierce competition for these dwindling resources. This increased level of poverty eventually causes depopulation by decreasing birth rates. If asset prices keep increasing, social unrest would occur, which would likely cause a major war, revolution, or a famine. Societal collapse is an extreme but possible outcome from this process. The theory posits that such a catastrophe would force the population to "correct" back to a lower, more easily sustainable level (quite rapidly, due to the potential severity and unpredictable results of the mitigating factors involved, as compared to the relatively slow time scales and well-understood processes governing unchecked growth or growth affected by preventive checks).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
But it's important to make the distinction between preventative and positive population control.
One is stuff like birth control, the other would be the stuff that should be banned
Lemmy.world did add that "harm no living thing" thing a while ago, but I don't think they're banning people for encouraging the use of condoms...
Everyone’s hoarding resources. Some are just better at it and luckier than others. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe!
Sustaining this level of growth forever wouldn’t work even if all resources were distributed fairly. Norman Borlaug bought us some time but that’s essentially a constant factor on linear production vs exponential growth. Exponential growth always wins.
I only had 7 kids last year so don’t blame me.
How'd they taste?
Fresh but familiar. Maybe like farm-to-table Soylent Green instead of the packaged Soylent Green.
fucking humans!
More like humans fucking
It's known according statistics in which year we will start seeing the coming decrease?. It will be also exponential.
2080 - 2090, with a peak of 9 to 10 billions. And apparently wouldn't be exponential .
Global warming to the rescue![?]
Eventually, climate change will cause a drop in population, but not before causing catastrophic environmental changes that lead to increased food scarcity.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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