This is true, but unfortunately, according to the present model, resource use and waste production go up as people get wealthier, too.As the world gets wealthier, reproduction rates will go down as they have in the West.
Why would this constitute a struggle, exactly? Population decrease would reduce competition for land in very crowded countries like ours, and presumably also drive wages up.The demographics have been changing for a while and we'll soon be struggling with a decrease - Danny Dorling, Oxford Uni geography prof is the go-to expert on this.
Why would this constitute a struggle, exactly? Population decrease would reduce competition for land in very crowded countries like ours, and presumably also drive wages up.
Oh lol, that old chestnut. Do we have a general labour shortage at the moment, do you think?Having enough people to provide for the elderly.