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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I like the way the media just creates contradictory headlines. One minute it is complaining about too many people taking up resources and contributing to climate change, and when it is clear that the population of the world has started to decrease, that is suddenly bad news.
We cannot have an ever increasing population on this planet. It is a good thing that the size of families is decreasing.
It is true that the governments of the world need to work out how to manage this population decrease to ensure that there is not a demographic emergency such as not having enough younger people to look after the elderly, not enough talent to take over when skilled managers retire, etc. But it is definitely not bad news.
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Of course different journalists can approach different articles on the same subject from different viewpoints. At face value, overpopulation is a bad thing, stretching already limited resources in some parts of world. I think most would believe this to be objectively true.
That said, under population, or a declining one puts other pressures out there. The generations who reaped the supposed windfalls of privatisation consigned future generations to paying increased costs with profits being creamed off the top to the Cayman Islands or wherever. Decades of profits sold off in one go to the private sector knowing future generations will pay. This country is in £2 trillion of debt, and the rest of the world combined a ridiculous figure more. People are living longer, with fewer taxpayers to contribute into the pozni scheme.
If an increasing number of people wake up to the fact that this money isn’t “as good as gold” the way it was in the 60s and merely a spreadsheet calculation this will inevitably generate unrest among the declining population that they are being saddled with the debts of their ancestors.