/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12117356
Why keep it at this level when it could be reduced? Humans being at 8 billion in number has no particular significance, why not 1 billion? why not 100 million? There is absolutely no reason to have billions more people, it is simply encouraged through the current global economic system. As fertility rates continue to decline organically, nations will eventually have to come to terms with an economic system that doesn't rely on constant growth and immigration. We should speed up this process through some tasteful population control. This assuming it doesn't come crashing down on its own, then everything's fucked anyway.