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#583 - Stephen J. Shaw - Is Population Collapse A Real Risk?
Modern Wisdom
Are There Too Many People on This Planet?
I get the sense that this is the most dangerous of the existential risks. I think people are starting to galvanize, but it's still a background problem. This problem takes about 40, 50 years to really take effect. And even if somehow, magically, the birth rate went back to replacement level, send Japan where I am right now,. It would still take 30, 40,50 years for Japan to restabilize itself. The age balance issue where you have so many old people and you've lost the young generation who are also the generation who would become parents. That doesn't disappear for a long period of time. We need to be prepared for these changes until they were simply not
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