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Are you saying that the ones who take this pandemic serious also take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" serious? I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly

Are you saying that the ones who take this pandemic serious also take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" serious? I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" very serious and my solution would be to introduce a close to zero birthrate of the extremely overpopulated species of Homo Sapiens. I do not however take this pandemic serious at all and it is NOTHING compared to what is and will happen in the "ghastly future". We are living in a planetary wide human farm, they told us this was gonna happen! And it will happen again and again until we have devoured the planet.

o-__-o 6y ago
Similarly one could take “election fraud” seriously but not the pandemic or climate change.
ojhughes 6y ago
Zero population growth would be a terrifying dystopia. Have you read /watched the Handmaid's Tale or Children of Men?
jhanschoo 6y ago
Zero fertility would introduce an aging crisis.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Which is preferable to a resource exhaustion crisis. Can’t kick the can forever. Most of the world is at or below a total fertility rate replacement rate (2.1). The trend simply needs to continue for ~10-15 years to lock in the population decline.
  - ncmncm 6y ago
    We must hope civilization doesn't collapse before then. If it does, population will decline faster, but much less comfortably. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549
  - User23 6y ago
    But Subsaharan Africa will more than pick up the slack[1][2]. [1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31522-1/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... [2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Line/947 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...
    - toomuchtodo 6y ago
      Agree that more work needs to be done for women's rights in that part of the world (empowerment, education, easy access to family planning resources, etc). https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

o-__-o 6y ago

Similarly one could take “election fraud” seriously but not the pandemic or climate change.

ojhughes 6y ago

Zero population growth would be a terrifying dystopia. Have you read /watched the Handmaid's Tale or Children of Men?

jhanschoo 6y ago

Zero fertility would introduce an aging crisis.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Which is preferable to a resource exhaustion crisis. Can’t kick the can forever. Most of the world is at or below a total fertility rate replacement rate (2.1). The trend simply needs to continue for ~10-15 years to lock in the population decline.
- ncmncm 6y ago
  We must hope civilization doesn't collapse before then. If it does, population will decline faster, but much less comfortably. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549
- User23 6y ago
  But Subsaharan Africa will more than pick up the slack[1][2]. [1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31522-1/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... [2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Line/947 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Agree that more work needs to be done for women's rights in that part of the world (empowerment, education, easy access to family planning resources, etc). https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...