• Triasha@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    A fertility of 1.5 is a crisis for capitalism, but it’s a manageable for society. Every class of school children is 75% of the previous generation.

    Fertility of 1 means each generation is half the size of the previous one. That’s a challenge to maintaining civilization, not just profits. A Fertility of .7 every generation is 35% the size of the previous.

    I’m not saying we have to fuck to save the species, but the doomsayers are not entirely wrong. There will be challenges.