Because it takes 18 years to create an adult and nothing other than immigration is working at the moment.
If any country was truly serious about this problem, they would end social programs for the elderly and focus that funding for families.
If any country was truly serious about this problem, they would end social programs for the elderly and focus that funding for families.
Looks like the trolley problem in action.
If you don’t want immigration, but you still want to buy time then you have to end socialist entitlement programs for the elderly.
One big downside of any kind of social programs is that it conditions the population to rely solely on the state, thinking that their payments into the system will guarantee them safety. We tend to forget for a state to exist and to provide services, it needs people. Those people need to be born, raised and cultured in order to act as a community.