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Japanese have it about right . . .

India, not so much, though it must be said they don't have the same collective footprint we do, given their endemic poverty.

Meanwhile the Rainforest's around the world will lose another 10 acres today and every day after. While the for profit activists focus on selling everyone $10 gas, while they still tell everyone to hold their breath.

Bellingham Bill says

Japanese have it about right . . .

That graph is terrifying and shows civilization collapse.

How can a society exist when nearly 1 out of every 2 people are old and not productive? Who is going to pay the taxes to support the welfare safety net?

socal2,
Taxes won't need to be collected if man is extinct.

sbh says

This is a question that terrorizes only those who are terrorized by the notion of taxation in the first place.

I am not terrorized by the notion of taxes, I am terrorized by the notion of mathematically challenged Progs promising shit we can't pay for based on basic demographics.

You know, things like Defined Benefit Pensions for union government workers that are bankrupting Cities in California and diverting funds away from much needed infrastructure projects and improving schools.

Who is going to pay the taxes to support the welfare safety net?

Is there an owl in here???

Bill - are you assuming Corporate Profits will be that high if the population shrinks by 50% with a large percentage of them being aging seniors living on welfare or their dwindling life savings?

Who is going to be around in your preferred future to buy the products and services from Corporations to generate profits and taxes?

Bellingham Bill says

India, not so much, though it must be said they don't have the same collective footprint we do, given their endemic poverty.

Amartya Sen has much to say about China v. India. The bottom is much higher in China. India has some of the most bonecrushing poverty and still has widespread illiteracy.

thunderlips11 says

Bellingham Bill says

India, not so much, though it must be said they don't have the same collective footprint we do, given their endemic poverty.

Amartya Sen has much to say about China v. India. The bottom is much higher in China. India has some of the most bonecrushing poverty and still has widespread illiteracy.

India has too many people, too much poverty, but lots of young brains and potential. We just need to import some of them and let them pay for our retirement.

sbh says

socal2 says

Who is going to be around in your preferred future to buy the products and services from Corporations to generate profits and taxes?

When corporations can be drafted or enlist in the military because their earnings are so meager that they can't pay rent get back to me.

Be careful what you wish for. Corporations can produce lots of robots, that can produce lots of stuff dirt cheap, for humans to use.

I don't see what difference it makes how many children you have if you can afford them.

It's also lovely that the astoundingly ignorant, superstitious and selfish fucks are the ones doing the reproducing. Let somebody else take care of your genetic shits.

Unfortunately, human populations are controlled by accident, disease, starvation, warfare, genocide, or natural disasters, (on a minor level, predation), or some combination thereof, and will never be controlled by any rational human policies.

That's why global warming, even if one presumed it to be true, is an exercise at trying to gain political/economic control over resources, not about reversing global warming, because global warming will never be "controlled" without radical population control first and foremost.

Child Fucking Licensing.

Because unwanted children become wanted adults who knife your wanted child over $10 for Meth.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Child Fucking Licensing.

Because unwanted children become wanted adults who knife your wanted child over $10 for Meth.

You want govt to control who/how we procreate?

socal2 says

Who is going to pay the taxes to support the welfare safety net?

AI will pay.

CBOEtrader says

You want govt to control who/how we procreate?

We don't need to regulate body parts. We just need to make sure people are too selfish and distracted to reproduce.

The meek shall inherit the earth.

says

If you have children,you are the problem

The perspective in practically all of Europe.

Fuck the catholics. They wanted us to "populate the earth" and stifled contraception, promoting ignorance. Humans can rebel and stop procreating. Just force a die-off of their catholic-corporate slave market they've got going and shut em down.

It's an option.

socal2 says

Who is going to pay the taxes to support the welfare safety net?

What makes you think that they need a welfare safety net?