It’s interesting how different countries are dealing and are effected by the declining worldwide birth rates. The most astounding statistic to me is that wildlife populations have dropped +70% over the past 50 years. Frankly, if humans think that we are in the right to drop wildlife populations by such a staggering amount, a slight drop in human populations only seems like a fair way to balance the scales.
Offer education, contraception, and healthcare universally, regardless of border. This would tank the birthrate in a non fascist way, which is an objectively good thing. This weird procapitalist idea that we need or should want or really could sustain 8+ billion apex predators is ridiculous. In no ecosystem is that sustainable, even if the predators are smart enough to stop directly predating in other animals.
We should genuinely be striving for the least number of people that still allows the highest quality of life, with a further constraint being the lowest impact to the rest of the environment. Make no mistake, everyone regardless of immutable or even mutable status should be allowed to have kids if they want, but we shouldn’t want or need to frame it as something essential to continue continuity of wage labor.
I just wonder how much of the high quality of life in the west is built on plentiful cheap labor in the rest of the world.
Most of it. If your electronic gizmos were made in the US, they would be luxury items instead of everyday tools.
The plentiful cheap wild-harvested berries Finland prides itself for.
Jesus, even Finland is being caught using slave labor. It feels like modern moral values are built on lies.
There is no ethical consumption while living a capitalist way of life.