Part of a message from the Solar System to Demeter:
"...global population continues to decline at a satisfactory rate..." (p. 433)
My understanding is that there is no need for governments to encourage population decrease. The problem is never too many people but always failure to utilize resources to meet human needs. If there are five people in a car but four picnic boxes, do we say that there are too many people or that there are too few picnic boxes? Every extra mouth to feed is an extra pair of hands to produce food or something else to exchange for food. An affluent population regulates its reproduction without needing governmental encouragement but the high tech in this future history would support a much larger world population with every individual enjoying the benefits of the technology.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I still believe a post scarcity economy requires mankind getting off this rock to develop the resources of the Solar System. To say nothing of how the AIs which soon came to call the real shots encouraged this population crash to keep mankind under control.
Ad astra! Sean
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