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As far as I can tell, there has yet to exist a condition under which the political will to really tackle this problem has been present, so you would not expect
by asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago
As far as I can tell, there has yet to exist a condition under which the political will to really tackle this problem has been present, so you would not expect to see an example of a country successfully addressing it. This is pretty normal for humans -- waiting until a problem becomes catastrophic to do anything about it -- as we have seen in other areas recently. We will see how things are going in another few decades.
- ffwszgf 5y agoYou can’t rescue ethnic groups that refuse to procreate. Look at Norway and Sweden, the people in those countries long ago decided their culture was not worth preserving. No amount of policy will change that
- dragonwriter 5y ago> You can’t rescue ethnic groups that refuse to procreate. Ethnicity is more memetic than genetic. > Look at Norway and Sweden, the people in those countries long ago decided their culture was not worth preserving. Culture isn't transmitted by reproduction but by socialization. Immigration tends to involve socialization; indeed, the usual observation about future generations of immigrant populations aligning to preexisting native low birthrates in the developed world is evidence of either culture transfer (meaning reproduction not key to preserving culture) or that birth rates are a product of material incentives not culture (indicating that reversing low birth rates at need is a matter of changing material incentives, not culture.) Either way, the low current birth rates = irreversible drive to cultural death claim is inconsistent with the evidence.