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Originally Posted by redpoint5
We're seeing the end of nations centered around race, being temporarily propped up by immigration. All nations cannot be propped up by immigration, because people have to come from somewhere.
The only places with positive growth rates are so poor, that gettin' frisky is still an interesting thing people can do for free, and religious communities that impose a moral hierarchy.
Population will decline until it doesn't. It's only in cities that people think there's too many of us and there's scarce resources. If cities shrink and disperse, the thought that there's plenty of space to raise future generations occurs to people again.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is instructive.
The ability for any population to exist is fundamentally undergirded by the presence of physiological needs being met:
* Water
* Food
* Shelter
* Bare necessities
which are disappearing for hundreds of millions of those who can do little or nothing to change their immediate circumstances. Which will become billions.