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RE: Natural Population Decrease - The Lightweight Edition - Inspiring Videos Insight
Europe will have to adapt to less young people, but Africa is still growing. It may slow over time, but the demographics are shifting.
Agree, on world scale the population is increasing, but even in Africa more and more countries see a decrease in birthrate. Europe has to rely on immigration to be able to afford the state pensions to the increasing group of elderly people and the decreasing number of working people. Robotica and automation will also be of help to support productivity with less working people though.
It's something we have to adapt to. It's not viable to have the population just keep on growing.
Agree! When at some point we are able to download our brains/consciousness and/or we can live for 300+ years in our own biological body and/or we have the possibility to create androids, we have to stop creating new babies anyway :)
That's a little extreme, but automation and allowing active older people to keep contributing to society will help the transition. It's amazing that some people have seen the world population triple in their lifetimes
Technology is doing this: Wars with much less casualties; Longer life; Control of epidemics and so on. And technology will do a lot more to further grow the world population :)