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Everybody is posting suggestions on how to improve Japan’s birthrate. It seems to me, however, that this is a problem every country will have to deal with in th
by archagon 8y ago
Everybody is posting suggestions on how to improve Japan’s birthrate. It seems to me, however, that this is a problem every country will have to deal with in the medium-term. We can’t keep growing indefinitely, and any system developed with perpetual growth in mind will have to change.
- iamnothere 8y agoIn every discussion about birthrates, this point is raised. And every time, it is ignored, glossed over, or deflected. Overpopulation was briefly a concern in the 1970s, but since then we seem to have forgotten about the problem, at least in the mainstream, media-driven consciousness. I think there may be something fundamental in the human psyche that refuses to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reducing global population growth (or at least freezing it in place) is essential to prevent an eventual catastrophe. Of course, this is the definition of a self-correcting problem. It's just a shame that it is going to result in so much suffering. "When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death." -Thomas Hobbes