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Re:Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage by daenz on Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:06PM (#20601427)
>A trend does not equal actually dying out.

Do you have evidence of a < 2.0 fertility rate reversing itself in human cultures?

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Re:Japan's Women Opt Out of Marriage by freetime2 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:07PM (#20602027)
I don’t.

But it wasn’t too long ago that people were afraid of exponential population growth leading to wars and suffering and the end of civilization.

Now the global population has started to stabilize and concerns have shifted toward shrinking populations in developed countries. I don’t pretend to know how things will end up, but it’s not a stretch to imagine scenarios where the populations in developed countries could stop shrinking and stabilize.

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