AssaultPepper@monero.town to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoBirthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down114cross-posted to: collapse@slrpnk.netcollapse@lemm.ee
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkBirthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?www.theguardian.comAssaultPepper@monero.town to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square70fedilinkcross-posted to: collapse@slrpnk.netcollapse@lemm.ee
minus-squarePseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down3·4 months ago2 billion was perfect. Let’s get back to that and stay there.
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoOh, someone else who read ‘The Ministry for the Future’?
minus-square0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down7·4 months 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.