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> If you look at the western world, negating immigration, many countries have a shrinking population.

Even with immigration, Germany has a slightly negative population growth rate. And the United States grew by only 0.77% in a year. Again, that's with immigration.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

There's a conversation to be had about the future of non-renewable resources and the preservation of renewable ones, but the population growth fear-mongering from the likes of Dan Brown is deeply silly and not based on the whole truth.



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