Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by titzer 2924 days ago
> The first thing that the world needs is for all countries to reach a stable population level.

We need to stop making non-biodegradable garbage. Period. You can blame the last hand to touch it, but the whole pipeline should just not exist. Population will take the better part of a century to stabilize--we need to fix our waste problem no matter what population does, and we cannot wait for some mythical world with fewer people.