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>> Russia is dying. Fertility rate worldwide has plummeted and the population has peaked. Including these as war relate statistics is disingenuous. On a diffe
by innagadadavida 5y ago
>> Russia is dying.
Fertility rate worldwide has plummeted and the population has peaked. Including these as war relate statistics is disingenuous.
On a different note, population reduction is good for the environment and long term survival of the species but terrible for the economy and wealth - especially of some countries.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoIs it bad for wealth? I had read that the Black Plague that took out 1/3 of the European population actually made people (the survivors, of course) wealthier.
- xeromal 5y agoThat was a very temporary effect due to lords competing for workers. Eventually the king stepped in and stopped it. 'The same thing would probably happen now too. See: California and other states prevent rent increases during the pandemic.
- FpUser 5y ago>"but terrible for the economy and wealth" If the economy is based more and more on automation maybe it is possible to keep smaller population at even higher living standard and UBI. We might loose few by then trillionaires in a process but who really gives a shit about those.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoPopulation has not peaked, it is still expected to continue rising to 10 Billion.
- vidarh 5y agoThe point is that Russia's fertility rate is particularly low, and Russia can't really afford a long term compounding effect of their already low rate, with the loss of a significant number of young men. While that is unlikely to affect their thinking about the war in the short term, the article has a point that the perceived impact may well be higher when families are generally smaller.
- candiodari 5y agoThat one piece of good news. When it comes to fertility, babies, and even deaths ... wars just don't matter. Even WW2 made a tiny dent in world population.