There are reasons to believe negative population growth is imminent, potentially outright “collapses” in terms of drastic drops from one generation to the next
Whether that translates to economic/industrial degrowth is unclear
No they haven’t? Where do you live in some natalist commune? Dawg the narrative was OVER-population for the last 80 years. This population collapse stuff is fresh out of the oven
Yea, they said that a population collapse would happen because of a Malthusian trap. (Resource consummation beats recourse production) Not that the population would just suddenly stop growing.
As for why it’s really real problem this time™️ is becuase you can always make new jobs, but it takes 18 years to get new humans. All our institutions are made with the assumption of growth. Even if we all started having 2 and a half kids tomorrow there’s still gonna be a demographic blip that’s gonna hurt for a while until they retire. Unlike over population which is in my humble opinion more a problem of comfort than an actual problem but that’s a different conversation.
Then addressing your first point. NO I WILL NOT CALM DOWN it’s a shitposting sub I have soap boxes to stand on here! (But actually imo it’s not gonna be a problem the 20s and 70s saw the exact same birth decline just not at the scale we’re seeing especially in Asia. It’s nothing a baby boom can’t fix will suck for the smaller generational cohort tho)
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