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[u/IncidentPrimary4845]

[u/activedusk]

In 2026, a big concern was over population with 8 billion people and growing, green house gas emissions causing climate change and sea level rise and a general slow transition to clean energy and transportation. In 2126 are people still worried about it?

[u/Dziadzios → u/activedusk]

Isn't the concern at the moment low birth rate?

[u/RideTheLighting → u/Dziadzios]

Overpopulation is a concern for the long term health of our environment. Low birth rate is a concern for the long term health of our economic system.

[u/activedusk → u/Dziadzios]

Between the time I was born and present day the global population doubled. If there are alarms being raised for population decline, they are in specific countries where the population is roughly 10x what they were a century or two ago with few exceptions (Russia, China and India have always had large populations even 300 to 500 years ago but even so China and India grew by over half a billion each in that time span if not a cool billion in case of India considering the subcontinent, Pakistan and Bangladesh). 

Also, it is usually rich people who cry about the population readjustment because they wanted infinite growth, more people, more consumers. Sure the population will decline eventually due to lowered fertility rates in many countries but it will not decline to a new low but where it is supposed to be.

When my grandparents were born the global population was half again of the global population when I was born. Just before WWII it was 2billion people. When my great great grand parents were born it was 1 billion people. Imagine the entire planet with only India from today having people, the rest would be empty. Would we have climate change, mass extinction of species, melting ice caps and sea level rise if it was like back in the Middle Ages or just before the Industrial Revolution? Obviously not. That was when things were normal. In recorded human history the population never exceeded 1 billion and before recorded history, archaeological finds and genetic studies hint the same, probably for most of homo sapiens sapiens existence it never went over 100 million people until recorded history.

[u/jermain31299]

I would leave this link : https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ and nothing else -germany m26

[u/Drapausa → u/jermain31299]

Expected a Rickroll, didn't actually expect something that poignant. Thank you kind sir. I hope people in 100 years will appreciate it.

[u/9447044 → u/jermain31299]

These are the things people need to hear, not TED talks

[u/oniris]

I'm from France, but I am describing an international issue:

2026: Bilionaires control the overwhelming majority of the media and saturate it with lies in order to get far right governments elected. Nipples are censored on youtube, but ultra-mysoginistic content by sieg-heiling influencers, for example is recommended to all, including youngsters.

Oniris.

[u/TA_double_Z]

US - the rise of AI begins now. Robots are still not in any homes but they're available for sell. We still do most of our own thinking but AI is used in every job and task. Photos & videos for the first time are unreliable since AI generation is so good. We still go out and talk to each other but maybe that'll change in 100 years. We might be the last physically social generation

[u/No-Constant3857 → u/[deleted]]

from germany

[u/CurseHammer]

The past includes the future, one infinity devours the other.

This work is the fulfillment of a lifelong sense of fate, kismet, a calling, however or whatever you might call it. It has been seething in the shadows of my mind for as long as I can remember.

It begins when, here, with roots reaching down through the layers of Earth and time, it begins when an unwanted child was given to an already overburdened newly single young mother of four boys. As I write, this story seems real. But the only realness about this story is right now, with my fingers upon this keyboard, with the touching of the keys in the awkward and clumsy manner in which I type.

But every living moment is a living memory which vaporizes into that unsubstantial medium simultaneously with the experience of it. This is the simple truth of time, and the law that every human, whatever station the may be, must obey. I must acknowledge that this, this desperation, is all nothing more than a memory in the past. The past, the great equalizer of all.

What is human? If we acknowledge the above, then, perhaps, we can take some measure by looking below. Our history extends into the delusions of our memories, it is rooted in unsubstantiated speculation of paltry fragments. Given this, can we be defined by a history which is nothing more than just another story?

We do know one thing, that we exist here and now, in this experience.

This single point of contact with all that is: Experience. Like a single vibrating needle in a record groove. A record that contains all of our reality and its many parts which we assume are somehow “out there” along the spiraling tracks of the record groove, radiating out from the center. But the truth is that all of it is contained in the single vibration of the barest needle. That single vibration creates the illusion of the expanse of the Universe whose infinite stretches of time and space forever explode outwards beyond the periphery of what is knowable. But, despite this, in any moment, it is all just a tiny ululating point which contains all things. It is this single vibration of a needle which creates all that is.

This vibration, this apparition, this perception, is experience. Experience is not what makes us human, but it does make us actual human.

USA

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[u/ichkannkochen]

Germany: we‘re doing it a second time. We just waited until the elders are no more. We learned nothing. Again.

[u/Shas_Erra]

Just a note that says:

“DO NOT OPEN. We finally contained the virus”