| Mr Khan said: Population decline is not indefinite. Part of it is due to a collision of historically high standard of living versus the current low economic cycle (historical high living standards meaning that we don't need to have kids to live, while low economic opportunity also makes many of us feel we are not secure enough to have kids or even get married). You're not thinking of the long game, either. The Japanese too are "moribund", proving that it's a cross-racial phenomenon dependent solely on living standard. This means that as living standards rise around the world, this will become an even phenomenon. First with Asians, then with Latinos, probably Arabs third, Indians fourth, and Africans last. |
Good points. I don't think that white people will die out. I see Japan's stagnating and declining population as the same kind of problem as that of the West's. I do think, however, that just as a population over-reproducing poses great problems, so does a population failing to reproduce. For example, China has done a mostly great job dealing with an exploding population; I'm sure that, in the same regard, if China's population were declining beyond a certain point the PRC would take appropriate steps to encourage childbirth. I think Western countries could stand to take some steps to encourage childbirth. Not forced childbirth, but economic subsidies, programs that help with childcare, even a media campaign encouraging people to have children.
