Not like this. Quick lowering results in massive economic problems due to rapidly shrinking worker base. Birthrate is best keot at 2.0, which results in slow and steady population decline.
Yes, actualy. I am all for degrowth, but if we do it without a plan of how to be sustaniable while doing it, our societies will collapse, brining all of the not-so-ecological things like war unto the fold.
What? No. Degrowth is not a codeword for genocide. It’s about creating an economic model in which humans consume sustaniably, rather than feeding infinite growth demanded by capitalism. It’s specificly about avoiding the bombs.
Sorry but we humans have been fucking over the planet and our impact needs to be reduced ASAP.
We have blithely caused catastrophic damage to the ecosystem and have continued to do so for decades after we had the knowledge and capacity to reverse the effects.
The argument the whole time against changing our ways has been but it will hurt the economy
Well, we are now reaping what we sowed, so Fuck the economy and let the find out phase begin as soon as possible.
Just to preface - I am not a capitalist. I believe in degrowth and communalism. With that in mind, if we just start dropping our numbers at this rate any system we have will collapse. There is no way for human societies to work if the vast majority of its demographic are the elderly.
We are not doing “the planet” any favors by launching a civilizational collapse. Planned degrowth is not only better, it is literary the only way forward.
Well yes. But it is the same as like quitting smoking and drinking as a heavy abuser from one to the other day. Your next few weeks will be not so cool. On this case it will be not so cool decades
Looking here the fertility rate is declining since the 1960s, so I wouldn’t say 60 years is like quitting from one day to another, they had more than enough time to tackle the problem.
Oh yes yes. Of course the time would be enough to apply policies to tackle the problems created by this. However my experience of humanity so far is that those time will not be properly used to tackle the problems 🙃 therefore it will still feel like a cold turkey (IMHO)
Clearly this is a genocide, right? Y’all libs have been screaming about Xinjiang where the birthrate declined from 11 to 4, which means the Uyghur population increasing under this supposed genocide. Clearly if the Korean birthrate is below 1 this must be a super genocide and we need to get in there and save those oppressed Koreans.