• @OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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    39 months ago

    That’s everywhere on earth, people carry on about demographic replacement but we should be encouraging smaller populations. Human beings are just so egocentric that the thought of not reproducing is too crazy to entertain.

    • @silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      29 months ago

      Not particularly. People who see that their kids are likely to live to adulthood and that they don’t need a large family to live well tend to have only 1-2 kids. You see that in Japan, the US and western Europe

    • Uranium3006
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      19 months ago

      in many countries, sub-replacement birth rates have accidentally happened