this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
63 points (76.9% liked)

World News

32519 readers
490 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would you even want to stop population decline? It's, like, actually very beneficial for the ones who then live in a less crowded world : |

[–] tintory@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s on their weird about page

“The crazy thing is, despite all this, people still want kids. The economy and social challenges—are the real culprits for the drop in birth rates, not a shift in attitudes. Countries with austerity measures, like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, and Greece, have lower birth rates than Denmark and France.”

It seems to me that they are using population decline to go after austerity and NIMBYs

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you have to admit that still is weird. I don't believe this is their primary goal, setting up a website and writing articles without a more clearly stated goal.

[–] tintory@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s weird, but everything is well researched, verified, and cited.

If you want I can give you the Reddit user who originally posted the site and you can ask him if he is David

[–] c0c0c0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Long term, yes, great for the planet. But shorter term, a shrinking pool of working aged adults are going to have to care for a growing pool of elderly. Additionally, the overall economy is going to contact before the age cohort imbalance takes care of itself. Same thing is happening across most of the developed world, but it's happening faster in China, and they're less developed to start with.