Alarm as South Korea sees more deaths than births
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#3So what's the long-term plan here? A country's population is just supposed to keep growing... forever?
Re: Alarm as South Korea sees more deaths than births
#4So what's the long-term plan here? A country's population is just supposed to keep growing... forever?
Yes, same as the economy, too many things depend on infinite growth (retirement funds being the main one).
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#5Birth rates are dropping globally and we’re all living longer. The local answer for counties like South Korea is immigration from areas that have higher birth rates.
With climate change likely to affect the habitability of many of our current settlements, as a species we’ll need to support massive migration shifts over the next few hundred years.
So the problem kind of solves itself if we manage migration and resources correctly.
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#7So what's the long-term plan here? A country's population is just supposed to keep growing... forever?
unification with the North, which has higher birth rate (1.9) than the South (1.1)?
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#8Since South Korea's birth rate has been very low for many years (e.g. there are about half as many people in the 5 to 9 age group as in the 45 to 49 group), what exactly did they think was going to happen?
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#9So what's the long-term plan here? A country's population is just supposed to keep growing... forever?
Automation of almost all food and consumable production, combined with unlimited energy sources (renewables, fusion etc) and the need for continued population growth goes away.
Until we get there we import people from other countries.
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#10I'm a bit sick of every bit of news being framed as negative. Population growth is reported as negative as well.
If what we've read about climate change and so on can be considered true, then surely it's better to hurt economically for one generation (as fewer young people support greater numbers of retirees), than to drive the world into disaster potentially forever.