Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.
I remember the freak-out of the 90s. The world was going to be at 10 billion humans and unsustainable, leading to world-wide famine.
Now we're at the other end. It will cycle, the human race will continue.
I remember the freak-out of the 90s. The world was going to be at 10 billion humans and unsustainable, leading to world-wide famine.
Now we're at the other end. It will cycle, the human race will continue.
They have been getting it wrong for a long time, assuming that the gradual decrease in birthrate will stop, only to be proven wrong.
They can't just extrapolate assuming that birth rates will keep dropping since that would reduce the birthrate to 0. So they do the next best thing and assume it will stay constant.
But in reality, we just don't know which way it will go.
No - this time it is really different :-)
(apart from things like climate change etc.)