If we are running out of resources and increasing pollution does a smaller population not help with this? As a species we have shrunk in numbers before and clearly increased again. Really keen to understand more about this.
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Basically our economic systems (capitalism, socialism, etc) are based on always having an expanding population. Its pretty much a ponzi scheme, where new people are there to feed up the pyramid. Without new people, the system collapses.
Think Detroit – what happens to a city when half the population leaves? you cannot support the infrastructure (roads, schools, emergency services) with half the people, so things start falling apart.
Peter Zeihan does a lot of work on this. One video to watch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozDKrJdr_j4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs1zYns8pQI)
He’s got a lot of insights in how the world will change as population drops.
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