FoolishOwl on Nostr: It's bizarre to me that as a child, I was told that the world was dangerously ...

It's bizarre to me that as a child, I was told that the world was dangerously overpopulated at 3.5 billion, and now I'm hearing that we have a crisis with declining population at 8 billion.

I'm used to counter-arguments against Thomas Malthus and his reactionary assumption that people won't control their fertility. I've never been able to see population growth as a good thing, and have always suspected that it is the result of coercion.