“The low fertility rate, which has persisted for about three decades, will continue to contribute to low birth rates, especially in the context of the systematic decline in the number of women of reproductive age,” wrote the agency. “This trend is further exacerbated by the persistently high level of emigration abroad.”
The solution is immigration.
IMO this is more of short-term solution (having some immigration is always good though). All these countries with declining populations need to fix their societies to make it actually desirable for people to have kids. Immigration by itself won’t work forever (assuming the countries people are emigrating from fix their problems), but it will give them time to fix things. Problem is most of these countries seem completely incapable of actually fixing their problems, so…
Yes and it always and ever will be immigrants who lead the charge forward to try new ideas, start businesses, movements and inject new vital life into societies. To argue otherwise is to deny the basic wisdom inherent to genetics that diversity is the other side of the coin of strength, they are one in the same.
If immigration was the solution to everything, the US would be a paradise. It’s necessary but not enough.
The problem is ecological overshoot. The solution is degrowth.
That is tangential to the idea of immigration.
If anything immigration helps with degrowth as younger people can be introduced into a society without needing to raise the global population.
Fully agree. It’s a buffer to make a return to sustainable more practical, but the goal is a lower population.
For the record my frame of view is the planet and all life on it.
No, most certainly not.