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> for we need to make space for the next generation (only adding people to planet earth would not be sustainable, as resources are scarce - imagine nobody would ever die). Being on this planet for a limited time period makes it more important to make the right choices, because we have only one life.

Fertility rates are declining globally, even in Sub-Saharan Africa:

https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/dramatic-drop-fertility-acr...

Unless lifespans radically expand, we will eventually start to run out of people. If this were 4chan, I would tell you outright what I really think of you, but since it isn't, I won't.



Since we live in a time of relative peace and technology, people often forget that population correlates to military might.

I am pretty sure that once society decays enough that people start thinking of making war again, expect a population boom to happen.




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