Like the article says, the only real immediate problem with declining population is the proportion of older people living off benefits. This is a really easy problem to solve just be raising the age for collecting those benefits. But raising pension ages is really unpopular so politicians would rather let the system crash.
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More people = more competition, resource usage, pollution, crime, suicide, water, etc;
People and domestic animals account for 95% of mammal land mass, more than thousands of other species combined
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Like the article says, the only real immediate problem with declining population is the proportion of older people living off benefits. This is a really easy problem to solve just be raising the age for collecting those benefits. But raising pension ages is really unpopular so politicians would rather let the system crash.
More people = more competition, resource usage, pollution, crime, suicide, water, etc;
People and domestic animals account for 95% of mammal land mass, more than thousands of other species combined