Yes we are. Yes. We. Are.
Let it happen. I'll start panicking if the human population is still decreasing at 100 million. But for now, we are still growing.
Birth rates below replacement means that the proportion of elderly increases every year, forever. This means an every increasing proportion of resources has to be transferred from the working to non-working population.
It will become harder and harder for young people to build wealth and support themselves and it means fewer resources to solve the other very big problems we have such as climate change.
I was just trying to say that as the proportion of retired people increases they will take more resources and that will mean fewer resources for /anything/ else.
Not when life expectancy decreases, as it is here in the United States.
>It will become harder and harder for young people to build wealth and support themselves and it means fewer resources to solve the other very big problems we have such as climate change.
"Big problems" like climate change because much less "big" when other problems grow more pressing and threatening to immediate survival. People who don't have a roof over their heads or a meal to eat aren't concerned with climate change.
That's scary! Do you think life expectancy to continue to decrease?
> People who don't have a roof over their heads or a meal to eat aren't concerned with climate change.
Sure that's what I was trying to communicate. Climate change won't be a priority when people are struggling but it doesn't go away...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-sh...
- Immigration will alter the societal outcomes of a region, for “better” or “worse”, as the region chooses
- Destruction of productive and healthy societies by prolific but unhealthy ones will cause widespread harm.
- Failure to reproduce at replacement levels won’t show up as a disaster until many years after it is too late to correct it.
Wouldn’t it be better to aim to reduce harm and increase productivity, than to blanket reduce the overall population?