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Defusing the Depopulation Bomb

[Adapted from this bluesky review thread]The world's population is still growing. Today there are over 8 billion people on the planet. Demographers estimate the world population will grow to 10 billion in the next five or so decades.

Demographers estimate the world population will grow to 10 billion in the next five or so decades. And then it will peak. And then it will decline.

And then it will decline. The rate of population growth is falling, and is trending negative. The birthrate in the United States is 1.

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