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World Population Day: Sustainable population growth for a sustainable future requires understanding, comprehensive planning and collaboration (poliversity.it)

submitted 4 months ago by giotras@poliversity.it to c/science@lemmy.ml

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World Population Day: Sustainable population growth for a sustainable future requires understanding, comprehensive planning and collaboration

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https://council.science/blog/world-population-day-sustainable-population-growth-for-a-sustainable-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-population-day-sustainable-population-growth-for-a-sustainable-future

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Play stellaris and learn to embrace the certainty of steel.

[–] giotras@poliversity.it 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@Spacehooks 🤔?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Short: In the game you have the option to supplement pops with robots and eventually turn your pops into machines. It's also a 40k mechanicus joke.

Long: Machines will supplement workforce. So we don't need more pops when the pops are getting more efficient. Having too many spares will just add more food demand which will drain resources better allocated elsewhere. Have to balance growth with jobs and resources if you want to win. Min max FTW!

[–] giotras@poliversity.it 1 points 4 months ago

@Spacehooks 🤣

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Wait do we need sustainable population growth, or just a sustainable population?

And we still need planning and collaboration to keep earth habitable (for a human population anyway).