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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Oh? You have spare habitable planets handy? And cheap interstellar space travel?
Even if you're one of those Dr. Pangloss types who manage to delude themselves into thinking that AGW won't render the whole Earth uninhabitable (see Permian-Triassic extinction), why do you think the people already living in those more habitable areas are going to passively accept a massive influx of newcomers?
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Clearly a false dichotomy. It's like the salesman saying, "How much did you spend on your motorcycle? You would be crazy not to spend $50 on the best wax for your expensive bike." How do I know it's the best wax? How do I know it will deliver more than $50 in value to the bike? In the same way, how do I know spending trillions of dollars to "fight global climate change" will be effective? How do I know it will deliver more than trillions of dollars worth of value?
Sure, the Earth has incalculable value, but a 2 degree rise in temperatures won't eradicate human life. It won't even make it noticeably less habitable for most people.
The migration of people away from flooded cities won't be a big deal because it will happen slowly over time, over many generations. Land won't simply vanish leaving people stranded, rather the value of land being encroached upon will slowly devalue. Other land will then increase in value. Heck, most of the U.S. is still uninhabited land.
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Originally Posted by sendler
Eventually the rest of the entire world must realize that there are too many people here already and we must transition to negative growth worldwide.
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I see no evidence of there being too many people, only an unequal distribution of resources and opportunity. In the not too distant future, perhaps in 100 years, we will have the opposite problem of a population in decline. When VR porn becomes mainstream, men will have little interest in real women. That might partially explain Japan's declining population.
The rate of population growth has been in decline since the 70's, and it is predicted to continue this trend for the foreseeable future.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...s_by_sex_ratio
Sex ratio by country for total population. Red represents more women, blue more men than the world average of 1.01 males/females.
Sex ratio by country for population aged below 15. Red represents more girls, blue more boys than the world average of 1.06 males/females.
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Helloooo Finland!
...and I knew there was something I liked about Russia.
