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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

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Birth rates have dropped 20% since 2007. I don't think we ever came back from the '08 crash. It's just been smoke and mirrors.

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[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do we even need to maintain current population? Especially in the "half of the world" where it's declining? Not that I'm Malthusian, I think how society is organized is massively more important than its population, but a little gradual decrease in the "west" seems neutral to positive overall

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Demographic collapse in the West would be a net good, because it would destroy Western military capabilities, but overall - no. Society should be able to maintain stable population. Population decline is hard to stop at 'optimal' level, and once population have declined below some level, complex economic and societal organization becomes too hard to maintain.

Also, another half of the world is going in the same direction, just several decades later. Iran, for example, has already birth rates below replacement rate. In fact, we can expect Earth's population to start declining in 10-20 years, and this decline would be accelerating.