AssaultPepper@monero.town to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBirthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down12cross-posted to: futurologycollapse@lemm.ee
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkBirthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?www.theguardian.comAssaultPepper@monero.town to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56linkfedilinkcross-posted to: futurologycollapse@lemm.ee
minus-squarePseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago2 billion was perfect. Let’s get back to that and stay there.
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoOh, someone else who read ‘The Ministry for the Future’?
minus-square0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·1 year agommmm smells like something that quickly leads to eugenics. the amount of people currently alive isn’t an issue. declining birth rates are. we can’t rely on an expanding population forever, but until we can declining birth rates will be an issue.
2 billion was perfect. Let’s get back to that and stay there.
Oh, someone else who read ‘The Ministry for the Future’?
mmmm smells like something that quickly leads to eugenics. the amount of people currently alive isn’t an issue. declining birth rates are. we can’t rely on an expanding population forever, but until we can declining birth rates will be an issue.