.@beauwebb14 that one is unlikely imo... underpopulation rather than overpopulation is long-term threat
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Replying to @vgr
why because wealthy woman buy small dogs/refuse to reproduce?
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Replying to @beauwebb14
huge lit on this. See 'Empty Cradle' for eg. Reproduction falls below replacelement levels (2.1) above development threshold
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I know it. I believe it's a truism predicated on certain cultural attitudes.
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Replying to @beauwebb14
Some version of r/K selection possibly at work, plus simple agency (birth control) which is <100 years old
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Replying to @vgr
Your analysis is framed too narrowly w/I middle class western liberal context.
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Replying to @beauwebb14 @vgr
Convergence to that normality is not at all a given.
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In fact, it is impossible, as that normality rests atop a distinctive and expansive base.
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Replying to @beauwebb14 @vgr
Perhaps what we're seeing is not so much a happy stabilization of global population, rather a caste breeding itself out of existence.
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And yes, very much aware of the Japan leg of the trilateral stool.
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