• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    3 days ago

    I’m not keen on a society were seniors are the majority of the population, it would be a disaster.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I’m not keen on a society dominated by resource exhaustion, grossly exceeded planetary boundaries leading to ecological overshoot and collapse and billions of early deaths due to climate change, pollution and conflict as everyone fights for whatever is left.

      An againg society is a necessary step towards a sustainable population. Anything other than a sustainable population (number of people x consumption amount) will, by definition, not be sustained. A collapse will be chaotic and devastating. A managed descent of degrowth will have difficulties but could save humanity and the biosphere as we know it.