[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Originally Posted by edale

What is so bad about slow growth or stagnation? It's unreasonable to expect perpetual growth, and the planet surely doesn't need more people. I'm personally very encouraged to see population slowing, and wish Africa would hurry up and join the rest of the world when it comes to this metric.

I get that we built our economies around growth, but that's entirely unsustainable. I've always found the Rust Belt intriguing for this reason. It's one of a few places in the developed world where growth has stopped, and shrinking at the regional level is even occurring in some metros (Pittsburgh, Cleveland). Yet these cities appear to be hitting their strides once more and developing into better versions of themselves. Perhaps this region can provide lessons for how to adapt when the growth machine comes crashing down.

Amen. We are literally killing our planet with over population. The world would be a remarkably better place with 1 billion people instead of 8