alt Hacker News> overpopulation has been a concern for many decades, yet politicians that ignore the problem, or actually advocate for more population, somehow keep getting elected
Most societies have reached a point where fertility rates have declined to below replacement.
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cwnyth • yesterday at 11:01 PM
This is a dubious use of "society", and it ignores the fact that the world population is growing at an extremely fast rate still.
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xienze • yesterday at 11:12 PM
> Most societies have reached a point where fertility rates have declined to below replacement.
And governments in those countries are importing as many people as they can to paper over their own population decline.
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Most developed societies. When you live by subsistence agriculture, having lots of kids is a benefit as they are free labor. When a culture urbanizes and industrializes, they are less of a benefit.