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Environment & Energy

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16. A smaller population might find completely different things to be useful

Sat Mar 30, 2024, 09:28 PM

Mar 2024

and the speed of the recovery after Mt. St. Helens blew up suggests the planet has the ability to reover rapidly as long as we get out of its way.

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Birth Rates Are Plummeting in Most Nations, And The World Isn't Prepared [View all] Warpy Mar 2024 OP

Earth needs fewer people. RandySF Mar 2024 #1

Nothing to worry about bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #2

Not this 55-year-old BWdem4life Mar 2024 #15

Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #19

Put me in jail then. Nt BWdem4life Mar 2024 #21

Any chance you can find a link to... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #8

Nope, pulled that one right outta my ass Warpy Mar 2024 #10

Ha! Well thank you anyway... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #11

VSED is already available Hekate Mar 2024 #12

Yes, but highly unpleasant Warpy Mar 2024 #13

I know adapting will be challenging to society in general... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #9

I think we are possibly past the tipping point, peacebuzzard Mar 2024 #17

Invest in robotics. DavidDvorkin Mar 2024 #20

Great, another "doom and gloom" headline about a trend that is GOOD NEWS. RandomNumbers Apr 2024 #22

Yeah, I know, right? Warpy Apr 2024 #23