Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave – largely to no avail.
Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidised childcare and parental leave to try to reverse a rapidly declining fertility rate – largely to no avail
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When will they stop seeing this as a problem that needs to be solved, rather than a solution a number of problems we’re currently experiencing?
I think depopulation is the best answer to global warming, but it has serious issues for economies.
Fewer births translates into an aging population. Now you have fewer young people doing the business of the nation and more old people requiring support.
To put the icing on top, now the tax base is shrunken. So how do we support the elderly? Hell, how to we provide any social safety nets?
Taxing the wealthy is a huge part of the solution, but it's not the panacea many on here make it out to be. Fortunes rise and fall, not a stable thing to base economic policy on, that requires a predictable tax base. We still need workers, and many jobs are "youth only". How many old garbage men do you see?
Depopulation through declining birthrates seems a lot better for economies than depopulation through massive drought, famines and pestilence brought on through climate change.
I think depopulation is the best answer to global warming, but it has serious issues for
economiesrich people.Depopulation, demolish all asphalt shit and eliminate polluting factories and you'd have climate change fixed by dinner time
Because it's not a solution? Less people means the percentage of people thinking "well, I polluted for 1 person, but there's 1 person less so now I can pollute for two!".