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The chart shows the annual rate of global population growth according to historical estimates and projections from the UN World Population Prospects.

The growth rate peaked in 1963 at over 2% per year, and since then, it has more than halved, falling to less than 1% by 2020.

The UN demographers expect rates to continue falling until the end of the century, eventually leading to negative growth rates and a shrinking global population.

Source: Our World in Data.

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 12 hours ago

we are not running out of space, that's ecofascist propaganda. We could probably support like.. idk, 10x more people if we wanted to?

The problem isn't the population size, it's how we handle things. We have to stop relying on fossil fuels that dump poison into the air, stop having everyone drive all the time, stop eating meat all the time, stop having it be normal to live in a massive house with 5 km² of yard.. etc etc..

We need to model things much more like Hong Kong et al (or the netherlands, if asia scares you), than america, if we want to have a nice world to live in.

[-] OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

We could probably support like… idk, 10x more people if we wanted to?

Wrong. We're drastically over populated and rapidly running out of time and resources.

Stop repeating propaganda and actually research the things you want to believe in.

90% of earths topsoil is at risk of depletion by 2050

Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030

Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity.

Global carbon emissions are still rising

The latest CFSv2 model runs now show the Nino 3.4 SST anomaly forecast peaking at 4.10°C in November.

The arctic sea ice extent is declining rapidly and we're likely headed into a Blue Ocean Event later this year, and potentially a double BOE depending on how the El Nino and summer in the southern hemisphere go.

June 2026 came in as the second warmest on record since 1940 at 1.39°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, second only to 2024 at 1.50°C above the baseline

The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon but the earths alebedo with the declining sea ice and lack of cloud cover will impact these numbers massively and isn't being predicted for, which means that 4.5c above the baseline by 2060 is now possible.

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