I'm just demoralized that low birth rates are stigmatized as they are correlated with lower GDP, when low birth rates are somewhat of a godsend in times like these.
Then nations with low birth rates scramble to find ways to up the birth rates despite understanding the C02 cost.
It's ironic, really.
You have this backwards
Japan wants to be like China and the US, not like Qatar or Switzerland.
GDP is not GDP/Capita
I believe you have this backwards.
Low birth rates are correlated with higher GDP/capita; concerns are raised about them because they have a (decades delayed) effect of population aging producing a drop in the ratio of workers to those two old and infirm to work.