Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave to try to reverse a rapidly declining fertility rate – largely to no avail
  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The birthrate BS is already being used as reasons for controlling women. The only down fall is Religious nut bags and Republican assholes losing control over the other sex.

    A better way of life automatically equals the natural number of children. There’s no need for another 9 billion people. There is a very strong need of a better life for 8 billion of us.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      There’s no need for another 9 billion people. There is a very strong need of a better life for 8 billion of us.

      Agreed, but there are many possibilities for where this trend heads and when it levels out.

      • there’s no need for a chaotic, disrupted life for 5 billion of us
      • there’s no need for widespread societal collapse as we no longer have the population to afford the infrastructure we’ve built out
      • there’s no need to live in a dystopia of limitation with collapsing hope and vision, dying innovation and arts, ever constriction g, ever decreasing

      If we try to tweak the birth rate starting now, we’re more likely to land at a sweet spot like “ a better life for 8 billion of us.”

      And no, controlling women is not the way. Being evil always seems the faster and easier path, but where do you end up? Evil