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    1 year ago

    Here’s a graph of UN projections showing a peak, then decline. Obviously the possible range is still too much, but

    – people fear the red line of unconstrained growth but that no longer seems likely

    – I fear the green line of destabilizing shrinkage

    – we should tweak family support programs to try to land on yellow, where population starts to decline but slowly enough for society to adjust

    Edit: sorry bad url or an image search, so let’s go with Wikipedia, showing a range of predictions with population peak sometime in the second half of this century

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population