30 sats \ 3 replies \ @sime 6 Mar 2023 \ parent \ on: Global Fertility Rate declining - Good or Bad? bitcoin
The thinking is if we have fewer consumers, then we will tax the earth's resources less.
How do people who engage in that line of thinking explain the 300 year long correlation between rapidly rising population and rapidly increasing prosperity?
Keep in mind that respectable opinion has been fear mongering about running out of resources the entire time.
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Yes - Malthusian theory in 1700s
Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline. This event, called a Malthusian catastrophe
contrary to this theory food supply grew much higher than population growth with the advancing technologies.
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Cool. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully I'll remember the name.
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