[onikolas7]

It will put very strong pressure during the transition with a few young people supporting a larger aging population (see Japan). It's also opposed by capitalists as it goes against the infinite growth mantra (see for example Musk's comments on the subject). More importantly, it won't do anything in the short term where we need it urgently.

[roenxi]

I think your comment is pretty reasonable, but I really can't resist making this observation.

> It will put very strong pressure during the transition...

As opposed to exponential growth? With the number of people we've got wandering around, we're one slightly-worse-than-COVID disaster away from 100s of millions to billions of people starving to death. An outcome like Japan's is significantly better than what is likely to happen in Africa.

[nextaccountic]

The human population growth is not rising exponentially, the growth is actually declining since the 1960s and by 2100 we may not even grow anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Population_g...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...

[onikolas7]

No, I agree, it is the sensible thing to be doing, but it looks like we are at a point where radical short term fixes are needed.