Submitted 1 day ago by StudChud@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
“The latest research by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the fertility rate was 1.48 babies per woman in 2024, down from 2023 figures.”
“Housing affordability, economic security, gender inequality and climate change were the four big things that were not being earnestly tackled by government, Dr Allen said.”
No shit.
The capitalism will continue until morale improves
A few months ago John Quiggin posted this and I find his argument pretty compelling
Are pronatalists living on the same planet?
But even in this extreme case, world population in 2100 only falls to 6 billion, the same as in 2000. I was around at the time, and did not feel as if there were too few people about.
What about the need for workers? One unsatisfactory feature of long-running projections like this is the use of outdated statistical concepts such as the “dependency ratio”, that is, the ratio of people aged 15-64 to everyone else. That made sense 50 years ago, when this range represented the period between leaving school and retiring in most industrial societies. But these days (and it will be even more so in 2100) education continues well past 20 and retirement is often deferred to 70 or more. A look at the age group 25-69 shows that it is going to remain more or less stable in absolute numbers declining only marginally relative to the growing population
Also followed up with this
So this is goos news. On a planet that should have around 100-500 milluon at most
Malthusians fuck off
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
They went so far down the wage slave route that we can even afford to produce more children. It really is a mental illness amount of greed and we have to start treating it that way.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Agreed that 80% of voters have something wrong in the head but here we are.
theguardian.com/…/un-expert-human-rights-climate-…