I don't know why people go from one extreme to the other. There is zero risk of humanity disappearing because of a lack of birth rates. The shrinking growth ra

I don't know why people go from one extreme to the other. There is zero risk of humanity disappearing because of a lack of birth rates. The shrinking growth rates are problematic for wealthy old people because they realise that their money represents economic power over other people, but if those other people don't exist, then their economic power will be worth much less than they deluded themselves it is. Indulging in the desires of these special interest groups makes no sense for the continued survival of humanity. If anything it makes it harder for humanity to survive as we run the risk of faster resource depletion. If you believe in mars colonies and so on, you would want our society to survive the next 1000 years and not prioritise the next quarter so an old person can retire from their stock returns.