It turns out that most of the world is depopulating (with the exception of Africa, Mid-East and India), and all economic activity based on demographic growth will eventually collapse.
For most of human history the population reproduced enough to replace itself and more, but not anymore.
Woody Allen spits some more of his wonderful pessimism in this recent interview: http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory?page=1
"The human predicament: the fact that we’re living in a nightmare that everyone is making excuses for and having to find ways to sugarcoat. And the fact that life, at its best, is a pretty horrible proposition. But people’s behavior makes it much, much worse than it has to be."
thanks for posting that, it's great! I think [a href="http://www.amazon.com/Utilitarianism-Institutions-Justice-James-Bailey/dp/0195105109/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1"]this[/a] is his book.
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Not related to this post but I thought this might be interesting:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/human-race-doomed-deutsche-bank-one-most-important-future-turning-points-history
It turns out that most of the world is depopulating (with the exception of Africa, Mid-East and India), and all economic activity based on demographic growth will eventually collapse.
For most of human history the population reproduced enough to replace itself and more, but not anymore.
Dali,
I am hearing this even here, in Brazil, which is a southern country, not one of the richest, but still, we are depopulating as well.
Maybe there´s a small chance after all...
Woody Allen spits some more of his wonderful pessimism in this recent interview: http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory?page=1
"The human predicament: the fact that we’re living in a nightmare that everyone is making excuses for and having to find ways to sugarcoat. And the fact that life, at its best, is a pretty horrible proposition. But people’s behavior makes it much, much worse than it has to be."
New antinatalist blog - http://diabasis.com/
Sister Y-
thanks for posting that, it's great! I think [a href="http://www.amazon.com/Utilitarianism-Institutions-Justice-James-Bailey/dp/0195105109/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1"]this[/a] is his book.
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