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I was hoping you would say who would (bad grammar, I am so naughty)
cheer for population growth and who you thought would possibly have the strange collection of motives you outlined :
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Being a bidness leader hoping for more customers hence more dollars in his pocket?
Being a politician hoping to increase his base and fund his Ponzi schemes?
Being a religious leader hoping to achieve world dominance via having his group out-reproduce all others?
Being a military hungry for more cannon fodder?
Being an egomaniac that thinks more copies of themselves blesses the world?
Being a crazy egg-layer that won't be "fulfilled" until she fertilizes as many of her dumb eggs as possible?
Being a simpleton that buys into the rhetoric from ^?
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You'd claim that there aren't people out there in the world pushing population growth for at least some of those motives? You can certainly hear a version of the first from most economic types: that continued population growth is necessary for the economy, and that countries like Japan that are experiencing a (short term, so far) decline are facing disaster. Likewise the religious/ethnic motive can be found, with e.g. Palestinians trying to outbreed the Israelis, or the 'Aztlan' types wanting to return the southwestern US to Mexico.
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What is wrong with the title ?
It matches the chart quite well as far as I can see.
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How so, when the world's population is not shrinking? Even most of the places with birthrates < 2.0 are growing, due to immigration.