If the world population peaked and then declined to 1 billion over several centuries, the infrastructure built for 10 billion (schools, hospitals, utilities, housing, roads) would be massively oversized and economically inefficient; this represents a colossal waste of resources and capital.

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all of that infrastructure they have right now, ch, you know, schools, um, playgrounds, all these things that we associate with children, it's going to be like ghost schools, ghost playgrounds

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Population Decline Is Worse Than You Think | Prof. Dean SpearsWin-Win with Liv Boeree
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