the countries that are panicking about birth control are also the countries that think they’re going to be at war in the next generation or two. And the demographic situation is already bad in the countries that aren’t already shooting.
Look at how bad things were before it started, and what 3 years of full scale war has done to Ukraine and Russia, they have more or less succeeded in signing each others death warrants as nations
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
What a bullshit dilemma.
And you are wrong that wealth inequality causes the drop in birth rates. The birth rate was higher in the Dickensian times of Britain compared to now. If anything, it is wealth equality, universal positive rights, and women’s liberation that tend to make people have fewer kids.
A ecosocialist world is a sustainable one. An ecofascist world is just a death spiral.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
An ecosocialist world would not allow wealth inequality to become this bad.
It’s a biological fact when resources are constrained that a population will plateu.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We don’t live in one. The challenge is to make one.
Mice and fleas don’t have medicine, feminism, research centres and agriculture. Look at the world around you. In societies with high degrees of scarcity and high infant mortality, humans have tended to have a lot of babies. This is true now, and it was true historically. On the flipside, in societies with high development indexes, humans tend to not have many kids. From Japan to Sweden to Cuba, you see that fertility rates inversely correlate with human development. These are just observable facts.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The vestiges of mutual aid left in our society do not meaningfully counteract every generation having 1/2-1/4th of the resources their parents did.
These resources constraints limit population growth, humans are smart enough to see what’s coming and many voluntarily don’t reproduce. We’re already seeing wealth inequality force our birth rate decline.