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I never worried about Paul Ehrlich and his “population bomb”.
If we have 8 billion or 10 billion or 12 billion people, we would probably find ways to get along just fine.

But, likewise, if we found ourselves with 6 billion or 4 billion people, I don’t know why that would be a genuine crisis.

And, since we may be headed into a future with at least a temporary decline in population, I don’t know why we should panic about it.

I think governments and societies ought to just think about adjustments — if the population of the US were to drop below 300 million people, what would be a good way to manage that? Why can’t we just prepare? Why do we need to desperately seek ways to get more people — import more immigrants! Encourage people to have 3 or 4 children! Tax incentives!

I think the Powers That Be will push solutions on us for something which is not necessarily a problem.

I still remember the graphic I was shown 35 years ago, where you could fit all the inhabitants of the world into a plot of land the size of a large Texas county without touching each other.

That picture has only increased slightly in 35 years.

There are still scads of land, 100’s of millions of acres, which are completely without population in the world. And that’s arable land.

The world population quintupled in the last 150 years. The population explosion and migrations, to fuel global industrial work over the last century and a half, are an unnatural series of events. Expect an adjustment downwards.

These tax and debt slavers need to keep their investments going, consequences to individuals and society be damned.