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Originally Posted by sendler
China would be a starving mess right now, begging with it's hand out if it had the 3 Billion people it was headed for instead of 1.4.
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I hope you can understand that perpetual growth on a finite planet is not possible. We have to develope a new economic system and make a transition to the end of growth.
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Perhaps China did need a brief period of negative population growth, but 1 birth per every 2 couples is drastic and disastrous. I don't know what the magic number should be, but it certainly shouldn't be 1:2. Perhaps a goal of 1.8:2 for an extended period of time.
A negative population growth is just as unsustainable as a positive one. In an ideal world, we would all agree on what the ideal number of people is, and maintain it.
I don't see human behavior ever planning for the end of growth. We would never elect a politician that promised to deliver 98% of last years GDP, for instance. Growth is in our DNA.