
LONGTERMISM: Why You Should Care About Future People
The Next Big Idea
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Population Growth
The future that we're looking at on business as usual to be is not one of ever more people clouding up the world. I'm actually a little bit more worried by what we might call underpopulation compared to overpopulation. South Korea in particular, their fertility rate is now 0.81 births per woman. That's a situation that we will be facing too in the coming decades. We could create a flourishing and long-lasting society where everyone's lives are better than the very best lives today.
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