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Yes, they too. But for a different reason.

That'll just be an unpleasant crunch. They should have reined in population growth before the baby boomers were born and it would have been a smoother, more pleasant ride back to a sustainable population level.

What are the criteria for "detracting" from society? Using more resources than produced? Committing a crime? Scoring low on a test?

zoom out. do you want to have a discussion about time, probability, and reality? If you don’t understand why I’m asking, say no.

Must be weird to go through life thinking you should never have been born. 😬

Rude. Wanting ZPG and giving the planet a chance to heal is a good thing. Your rudeness is not.

#FallingBirthRates

Word.

Unless, you’re old and need someone to wipe your ass…

We built our economies and governments on the principle of infinite growth. How's that working out?

Mandatory Accounting in high schools! Should have been done since 1950. Of course 75 years of Automobile Depreciation has been ignored by now. The Waste Makers (1960) by Vance Packard The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood Made to Break (2006) by Giles Slade

That would have been in 1800. Can you imagine with the knowledge we have now and a population of 1 billion? It would be paradise.

Until 50% alive are above 60 years old

Less humans = better planet... Kinda obvious when you look at the devastation to the environment for greed and profit.

The only reason they worry is it eventually effects the rich as fewer people to buy shit means left wealth for them.

I think more practice less babies make happier people

<<Thanos gif>>

OK, they don't need the group you think you're part of.

Less is better

Capitalism requires unlimited. Billionaires whine when the birth rate drops. Environmentalists celebrate it. Those without nuance invariably invoke Malthus like a boogeyman.

Who wants to bring kids into this unsettled world facing dt's dystopian world, full of pain, suffering & uncertainty, brought on by a demented pedophile will delusions of grandeur?

And would everybody quit saying "less" people when you should be saying "fewer"?

"Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling *white* birthrates." There. Fixed it for ya.

I think giving those residents a choice to move to another rural community might be less stressful than moving to a big city. Having rural communities die without any sort of plan seems dumb to me. And if you got to choose where rewilding occurred maybe bison and other wildlife would benefit.

The Catholics and the Muslims have a long history of encouraging their followers to create more followers.

I thinks it’s pretty clear at this point if economists and business leaders are pushing for more people it’s all to put more money into the pockets of the ultra wealthy. Hard pass!

Maybe we should try this out on China to see if it makes China better.

And generally speaking, the better life women have, the more likely their children are to survive into adulthood. So the instinctive pressure (species survival) to have lots of kids is that much lower.

Thank you, a very important fact that often gets overlooked.

I want a rational more sustainable world for everyone, not just 1500 American billionaires.

Agree. It is a very unnatural social structure that the patriarchy has forced on society to the detriment of everyone except a handful of rich men. The rise of the billionaires is a natural part of the patriarchy. Humans appear to be matriarchial, as are most social mammals.

Awesome!

Even as population declines in the world's richest countries, their eonomies keep growing. Instead of relying on young workers to support old retired folks, maybe find a way to tap the economy.

Wrong people populating...

When economists and “business leaders” agree on something you can be sure it benefits economists and “business leaders”.

I bought five wooded acres on Puget Sound. Friends asked, "Why? What are you going to do with it?" And the answer is "Nothing."

Growing up in a family of 7 living in a 1100 sq ft house, I'm all for smaller families. I had twins on the first try and stopped there.

Hard to see a downside when climate change is going to make it harder to grow food.

My kid is third generation only child. Less is more.

Pretty ironic given it wasn't long ago a number of people were panicking about over-populating the planet. Now we get to panic about an insufficient number of young people to take care of all us old folks.

The world birth rate isn't going down just the usa birth rate.

But, of course, the less sheep there are, the less billiinaires can make off of them ...

If you're still complaining about birth rates, you need to change your model. If we don't foresee jobs for these children, we do not need to be forcing them to be born

Steady-state economy. Steady-state population. Circular resource usage instead of consumption. Those are the only ways to achieve true sustainability.

The refreshing voice of reason. Thank you.

The single most damaging act a human can do is to reproduce in an obscenely overpopulated world.

Birthrates fall, the prophets cry, Fearing ghosts of days gone by. But fewer hearts may mean more air, Less hunger, noise, and blind despair. Still whispers grow of nations dying Hope replaced by endless spying. Not death, but fear, unreasoned, sly, Makes a paranoid world go dry. #Poem #paranoia

Not everybody wants to have children People that don’t want to have children that have children end up not being great parents Maybe it’s all of the estrogen we spray as a weed killer that’s reducing sperm counts and possibly affecting birth rates Notice they don’t talk about that

Current economics are based on constant growth and a pyramid scheme. It's completely unstable and unsustainable.

People started having less kids.

They think AI will lead to a world where the wealthy can live in a world of robots and automation without having to deal with the "huddled masses" infringing on their comfort.

Humans should just die out. We've had our chance and proved we don't care about each other or our home.

I've NEVER wanted children, but as a daughter of the patriarchy I thought it was my duty. Thank goodness I escaped. Also fuck American capitalism.

You must not be familiar with every single neo Nazi on earth and their great replacement bullshit

Your crankiness is entertaining. Keep it up.

There is no damn shortage of children. They are EVERYWHERE! Every problem we currently have can be traced to overpopulation and competition for resources. I'm sure there is an overabundance of already born children needing homes.