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with the current TFR rapidly approaching 1.5 children per woman virtually everywhere in the northern hemisphere, even if it remains stable (it will not, it will continue to decline), its population will shrink to 1/10th of what it is today in less than 250 years.

there will be plenty of empty houses for the generations to come.



A reverse Malthusian extrapolation, now that's something I haven't seen since Children of Men.



No, it's not the reverse extrapolation.

It's still part of Malthusian theory, it's just the logical conclusion of population collapse after resource depletion.




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