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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 23

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted David Clifford

    Yes. I am not worried by population decrease. In next few generations, it will ease the burden on the world's resources. If it went on for long enough, it could lead to extinction but perhaps 1000 generations of people making their own life choices better than 100,000 without?https://twitter.com/djhc2/status/999242834778697729 …

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    The trend towards lower birthrates is worldwide, even if some cultures are still higher than others. Extend education to women and birthrates plummet, regardless of religion or culture. It will cause global demographic shift, but there have been dozens of those, and no-one minds.
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      2. Coffee is for closers‏ @MichaelFoster26 May 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        That's an extrapolation fallacy. Just because the population decreases in the next, say, 3 generations doesn't mean it will decrease over the next 100. Maybe there's an equilibrium of, say, 6 billion that humanity will coalesce around and sustain for millennia.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 23
        Replying to @MichaelFoster26

        That;s why I said 'If it goes on long enough'. It's quite possible that it won't for cultural reasons and also very likely we'll find a way to make & raise babies which is less painful and less hard work for the mother in that time.

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      1. David Clifford‏ @djhc2 May 23
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I think Italy's birthrate is a low 1.8 per woman, which will cause ageing pop followed by pop fall. But while this rate *might* shut down a village, a large productive population will always find workers to sustain it. People move to countries, they don't to villages.

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      1. Mike‏ @citation_needed May 23
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        Ever notice that the people advocating to "go back" always seem to think they won't bear any of the negative consequences that would go with that?

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