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by remotecool 2390 days ago
Unless births are also somehow limited, limiting GDP growth will eventually cause large amounts of poverty.

Nobody wants to admit that the only real way to limit energy consumption is a horrible dystopian future.

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Birth rates have plummeted around the world, the reason we have a growing population is people living longer.

The only exception is Africa but even there the highest emitting countries like South Africa have a birth rate barely above replacement levels.