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Norion said:
Conina said:

Why do you see a (slow and peaceful) population decline as a bad thing?

This planet is overpopulated by humans and the resources are limited.

In the long run, the world would be a much better place with less people.

The issue is it absolutely won't be slow and peaceful in many, if not most places. South Korea is looking to be the worst so far with this and the country is genuinely screwed if things don't change in a big way before much longer, for example AI and robotics getting good enough. Overpopulation being the issue is outdated thinking when fertility rates are falling off a cliff in an increasing number of places and is already below replacement level in about half of all countries. This video shows just how bad a fertility rate crisis can be long term.

The decline is going to be slow and peaceful for the most part only right wingers would say otherwise.  Also, most people alive today will not live long enough to see a decline in the world population since it's not going to happen in the next 30 years.  I more than likely will not live long enough to see a decline in the world population since I am already 53 and the person that wrote this tread will more than likely not live long enough to see a decline in the world population either since he is 41.