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India's surprise baby bust
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India's surprise baby bust
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#3... as predicted by demographers for the last ?10? Years? Longer?
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#5What’s the problem? We’re committed to destroying livable human habitat for 100M’s to 1B’s of people via global warming.
That’ll be less painful if there are fewer people. Lower populations should lead to lower emissions growth too.
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#6This has a religious angle. Some religions believe in having as many babies as possible. Other religions are seeing the effect and realizing their mistake.
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#7... as predicted by demographers for the last ?10? Years? Longer?
They've tried nothing and it didn't work!
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#8What's the strong case against population dwindling other than supporting aging population? Given the AI armageddon, it just makes sense to reduce the population. If there's less population, we need less production and less workers. Of course, countries have to deal with oldest population for a brief period of time.
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#10... as predicted by demographers for the last ?10? Years? Longer?
Every single population goes through a baby bust when a certain level of development is achieved - women education seems to be a particularly strongly correlated sub-component.