#and don't think that split won't go along language or skin colour lines
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I'm starting to think it is a problem that population decline is only talked about by right-wing nut cases and people on the left either treat it as something to not take very seriously or react like "Yeah! Human extinction!". We're unlikely to celibacy ourselves to death, but it is going to affect the economy and it is going affect policy. A country that is tuned to run on 100 million people does not run very well on 60 million people. Business publications where I live are already running articles like "Europe is looking for immigrants with these important skills: engineering and healthcare". Because they want people to work in the old age homes. They aren't looking for young and unemployed people to boost their populations that way. And it's something we need to have an answer for *now* so normies have time to get used to the idea of mass immigration and the depopulation of rural areas and small towns before the only on addressing the issue is some blood and soil freak who wants to keep anyone with a womb chained in a breeding cave and to shoot all the black people. The average person will not react well to "Yeah! Human extinction!". They will vote for blood and soil! Especially when their economy is collapsing and their social services are crumbling!
#some idiot this morning was sniffing at the idea and saying “it's only in the west. the population is growing everywhere else.”#it's not projected to!#it's going to be a problem!#without policy changes we are going to see the sharpest inequality the world has ever known#with the skilled and wealthy but aging populations in one highly developed part of the world#and the unskilled or unskillable living in unimaginable poverty#with the developed world being even more fearful and less inclined to charity than they are now#because they've lost confidence in the stability of their own society#and don't think that split won't go along language or skin colour lines
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