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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by Balero on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:30PM (#28051143)
This is hopefully just a temporary solution though. What happens when these places get rich enough that their birth rates also drop?

To butcher an unrelated saying: "We can't all get immigrants from each other".

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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by scbrg on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:29PM (#28051830)
Perhaps we need to find another way to fuel the economy than the never ending pyramid scheme called population growth. At 8 billion (causing massive environmental damage) a drop in population would certainly not be a bad thing.
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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by simmanian on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:49PM (#28052022)
My hot take is that we need to find a new system that doesn't depend on perpetual economic growth. With both China and India rapidly developing (that's what, 3 billion people with money to spend), climate change will only accelerate until and unless we find an alternate model.
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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by backprop1993 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:43PM (#28051289)
Iran scheduled to peak in 2060: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/iran-population
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