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They want you dead
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:18 am
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:18 am
The Alternative, Optimistic Story of Population Decline
There is no doubt that a shrinking global population — a trend expected to set in by the end of this century — poses unprecedented challenges for humanity. China is only the latest and largest major country to join a club that already includes Japan, South Korea, Russia, Italy and others. Germany would most likely be in decline, too, if not for immigration, and many others could begin shrinking in the years ahead. (The United States is expected to grow moderately in coming decades, largely because of immigration.) Median U.N. projections point to global population peaking in the mid-2080s at more than 10 billion, but if fertility rates continue to drop, the decline could begin decades earlier.
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Fewer people on the planet, of course, may reduce humanity’s ecological footprint and competition for finite resources. There could even be greater peace as governments are forced to choose between spending on military equipment or on pensions. And as rich nations come to rely more on immigrants from poorer countries, those migrants gain greater access to the global prosperity currently concentrated in the developed world.
This new demography brings new challenges, including the need to offer quality and affordable child care, make college education more affordable and equitable, provide guaranteed minimum income and make societies more gender equal. Governments should abandon the mindless pursuit of economic growth in favor of well-being for citizens.
There is no reason the world’s population must keep growing or even remain level. And just as earlier panic led to harmful policies in China and elsewhere, efforts to raise fertility — which may prove futile — risk viewing women once again as birth machines.
Global population will inevitably decline. Rather than try to reverse that, we need to embrace it and adapt.
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There is no doubt that a shrinking global population — a trend expected to set in by the end of this century — poses unprecedented challenges for humanity. China is only the latest and largest major country to join a club that already includes Japan, South Korea, Russia, Italy and others. Germany would most likely be in decline, too, if not for immigration, and many others could begin shrinking in the years ahead. (The United States is expected to grow moderately in coming decades, largely because of immigration.) Median U.N. projections point to global population peaking in the mid-2080s at more than 10 billion, but if fertility rates continue to drop, the decline could begin decades earlier.
(Snip)
Fewer people on the planet, of course, may reduce humanity’s ecological footprint and competition for finite resources. There could even be greater peace as governments are forced to choose between spending on military equipment or on pensions. And as rich nations come to rely more on immigrants from poorer countries, those migrants gain greater access to the global prosperity currently concentrated in the developed world.
This new demography brings new challenges, including the need to offer quality and affordable child care, make college education more affordable and equitable, provide guaranteed minimum income and make societies more gender equal. Governments should abandon the mindless pursuit of economic growth in favor of well-being for citizens.
There is no reason the world’s population must keep growing or even remain level. And just as earlier panic led to harmful policies in China and elsewhere, efforts to raise fertility — which may prove futile — risk viewing women once again as birth machines.
Global population will inevitably decline. Rather than try to reverse that, we need to embrace it and adapt.
LINK
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:19 am to djmed
I can relate, I want them dead too
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:21 am to djmed
We definitely don't need a continuously growing world population. Something will have to happen to lower the population whether it be natural or man-made.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:42 am to djmed
quote:No human will see the end of the century.
a trend expected to set in by the end of this century —
Posted on 11/28/23 at 9:59 am to djmed
I wonder how many nations will become muslim majorities in the next 20 years?
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:04 am to djmed
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Governments should abandon the mindless pursuit of economic growth in favor of well-being for citizens.
Imagine having this much faith in government. fricking mind boggling.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:16 am to djmed
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Aristotle
Aristotle
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:28 am to djmed
quote:Sure there is. The business models of the ruling class require constant growth and leveraging based on future projections.
There is no reason the world’s population must keep growing or even remain level
Out of one side of their mouth, they're telling westerners to have less children. Out of the other side, they're telling westerners that they need mass migration because they aren't having enough kids.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 11:32 am to djmed
Current society makes it cost prohibitive for the best of us to reproduce thereby letting the low IQ drains of society do the breeding. It’s more likely the result will be the collapse of nations and a new modern era dark age happens than the poor migrants pulling them selves up to a higher socio economic level.
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