[freebear]

Are you saying that the ones who take this pandemic serious also take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" serious?

I oppose this 100%, I take the "ghastly future of mass extinction" very serious and my solution would be to introduce a close to zero birthrate of the extremely overpopulated species of Homo Sapiens. I do not however take this pandemic serious at all and it is NOTHING compared to what is and will happen in the "ghastly future".

We are living in a planetary wide human farm, they told us this was gonna happen! And it will happen again and again until we have devoured the planet.

[jhanschoo]

Zero fertility would introduce an aging crisis.

[toomuchtodo]

Which is preferable to a resource exhaustion crisis. Can’t kick the can forever.

Most of the world is at or below a total fertility rate replacement rate (2.1). The trend simply needs to continue for ~10-15 years to lock in the population decline.

[User23]

But Subsaharan Africa will more than pick up the slack[1][2].

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...

[toomuchtodo]

Agree that more work needs to be done for women's rights in that part of the world (empowerment, education, easy access to family planning resources, etc).

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

[ncmncm]

We must hope civilization doesn't collapse before then.

If it does, population will decline faster, but much less comfortably.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25745549

[ojhughes]

Zero population growth would be a terrifying dystopia. Have you read /watched the Handmaid's Tale or Children of Men?

[o-__-o]

Similarly one could take “election fraud” seriously but not the pandemic or climate change.