Falling fertility rates: What does it mean for our planet?

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As birth rates collapse across large swathes of the world and the global population ages, the geopolitical map is set to be redrawn – with big consequences.

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Anu Lesson

We absolutely need to rethink and redesign economy. It can’t be about eternal growth. We’ve already wrecked our planet in many ways heading to 8bn people (and neverending corporate profit & greed) so we need a new system for the 21st century. Surely we…

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  • Siobhán Costigan

    Anu Lesson Humans love to talk about how innovative and imaginative we are, and yet most people seem unable to comprehend that a different economic system is possible.
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    • Dawn Barrington

      Siobhán Costigan yeah wouldn’t it be amazing if people got imaginative and innovative about how to more evenly distribute what we already have. The feel good factor could drive more innovation and imaginative ideas that we haven’t even thought of yet. …

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    • Andrew Grant

      Siobhán Costigan possible is to plausible as is correlation is to causation.
    • Amy Tredinnick

      Siobhán Costigan sadly there are too many stupid humans…I suspect nature will sort it out. COVID was probably just a test run.
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  • John Schirripa

    Anu Lesson a mix of Capitalism, unionism and socialism has worked well for some countries.
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    • John Schirripa

      Rita Evangelista 1.2 million people are added to the planet each week…..and they go after carbon emissions.
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    • Rita Evangelista

      John Schirripa yes, the world needs to be worth bringing a child into first. If all people can do is struggle and not progress why would you want to bring a child into that. On the other hand we’re over populated and this may just be a natural reaction…

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