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[โ€“] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 1 day ago

Is this why the population of Japan is decreasing that badly? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why scary? Wouldn't it be good if the human population didn't increase more?

[โ€“] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and no, the way our society is built/structured can't handle negative growth. A lot of infrastructure and way of life/quality of life would suffer massively. That being said, pop growth also can't go up forever (while limited to earth). We actually have a ton of livable land left too, cities have learned how to be so super dense that it's eating all the rural area's populations in quickly developing places (It's where all the jobs and opportunities are -cities). Estimates suggest we will top off around 10 billion people

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[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The west is already on it, how do we propagate it elsewhere?

[โ€“] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Fertility rates are on the decrease everywhere.This doesn't mean that population is decreasing, population increases as long as the fertility rate is superior to ~~1~~ 2.1, which is still the case in a large portion of the world, but I think humanity on a global scale is expected to go beneath that treshold around 2050-2060.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's actually around 2.1 to keep the status quo.

[โ€“] kemsat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Supernormal stimulus

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, they want less mindless workers that they can control, not more. Makes total sense.

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