Comments by "BVargas78" (@BVargas78) on "China's Population Has Peaked, by 2100 it Will Shrink by 800 Million." video.

  1. This is actually a good thing as it can help lead them to a more sustainable future. If it were to keep growing on the other hand it could lead to a famine especially considering water problems.
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  2. I can't tell if you see that as a good thing or a bad thing :)
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  3.  @utubefuku7132  So your basically counting on technological breakthroughs to save the day. I hope it can, but it's a heck of a gamble. Personally I think the big breakthrough for mankind will be once we are able to exploit off world resources of our solar system, and finding a way to bring it back to earth for processing in a cost effective way. Enough resources to fuel capitalism for thousands of years, that ceiling I talk about will be pretty much gone for the forseeable future. And I do think we are capable of achieving that one day, but not this century. Hopefully i'm wrong because if i'm not, that makes you Thanos. As the impending catastrophic policies you support will end up creating some kind of equilibrium. But only at the cost of untold death and suffering, with after effects that could last many generations.
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  4. ​ @utubefuku7132  I don't think you realise how much things are going to change and how different the world will be from 2050 to 2100. Old conventional economic wisdom ain't going to cut it, there is a ceiling to growth and the cap is finite resources or resources being harvested faster than they can be regrown. And once we hit that, it will seem that our neo-liberal economic model was the biggest pyramid scheme ever seen once it starts to come apart due to combination of large population and resource shortages. It's a perfect sum for an age of famine and revolution which could threaten all the progress we have made. I understand that demographic decline or stagnation is bad in our markets driven economy as it largely needs growth and the promise of profitable investments to sustain progress. So it will be difficult to adapt to stagnation or even shrinkage, but it will be a lot easier to adapt to that, than to adapt to the political instability that could come about once billions of people face water shortages, famine and those who had lived a first world-like lifestyle suddenly face third world-ish poverty.
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