The New Population Bomb

Re:The New Population Bomb by Factorium on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:26PM (#28635669)

This will resolve itself naturally: as populations fall, housing and land becomes much cheaper, and wages rise. These are major factors predicting fertility rates in the West.

However that natural feedback loop will be disconnected if Governments worldwide are permitted to import millions of people to replace the populations.

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Re:The New Population Bomb by pharke on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:32PM (#28635758)

That doesn't seem to be true in Japan yet. Housing and land are relatively affordable and yet they maintain very low birth rates and most people choose to live in large urban areas instead of the country. What would be different about the West?

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Re:The New Population Bomb by Factorium on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:41PM (#28635882)

Japan's population peaked in 2009 at 128.5million:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2009/

And in 2021 its only 2% lower than that.

2009 fertility rate: 1.37

Today: 1.42

So, it is improving.

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Re:The New Population Bomb by pcbro141 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:42PM (#28635897)

Cost of living is not the only reason why Western people don't have a lot of kids anymore. A lot of it is a change in values, Western people just don't idealize/value having a big family anymore.

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