My thoughts exactly! A falling population is good in so many ways. The sooner everyone wakes up to this the better. Currently the average punter is being hoodwinked
The other day I was asked to do an interview for a South Korean radio station about the declining-population “crisis”.
Therein lies the rub — there is no crisis.
While I think the interview went well (you can listen to it here), I didn’t have ample time to flesh out my arguments; I’ve decided to put them down in more detail here.
Probably the most important aspect that I didn’t even get a chance to cover is that globally, our economic system is essentially broken because we are forced to exist inside a paradigm that erroneously assumes Earth’s resources are infinite. They are not, as the global ecological footprint clearly shows.
To slow and perhaps even reverse climate change, as well as mitigate the extinction crisis underway, we are obliged to reduce consumption globally. Shrinking human populations will contribute to that goal (provided we simultaneously reduce per-capita consumption).
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Jon Austen 