One day I will understand the causes behind the fixation of HN (and other social...

missedthecue · 2025-07-11T22:29:16 1752272956

It takes about 10 minutes of middle school math to think through the rather catastrophic consequences and their second and third order effects. The consequences will literally be worse for civilization than the worst IPCC projections of climate change, and arrive much sooner! I'm honestly shocked we talk about anything else.

bdangubic · 2025-07-11T22:46:06 1752273966

I'm honestly shocked we talk about anything else.

It is 2025, we only talk about what people that are in control of our lives (politicians) decide we should talk about. this is why at thanksgiving and christmas dinners we all talk more about two transgender teenage athletes (in a country of 350m people) than IPCC projections or anything else that matters for future generations :)

thefz · 2025-07-14T05:46:57 1752472017

So we should keep growing indefinitely?

missedthecue · 2025-07-14T17:10:04 1752513004

We ought to at least replace ourselves. Shrinking 55% every generation is an auto-genocide.

hackinthebochs · 2025-07-11T09:35:19 1752226519

Birthrate collapse precedes societal collapse. Everyone should be concerned about it.

pjc50 · 2025-07-11T09:25:15 1752225915

It's right-wingers obsessed with "replacement" memes, combined with the usual doomerism.

thefz · 2025-07-11T11:49:51 1752234591

Yeah.

And generally obsessed with what women do with their reproductive organs

Saline9515 · 2025-07-11T09:49:09 1752227349

Left-wingers use depopulation to justify an increase in immigration[1]. Both sides talk about this, this isn't just an obsession.

[1] For instance: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lets-have-more-immigrants... - note that the author has founded a non-profit to actively promote birth control.