Immigration vs Low Birthrates
The cluster discusses whether immigration can offset declining birth rates and population shrinkage, debating its short-term benefits, long-term sustainability, cultural impacts, and alternatives.
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Fertility isn’t a problem, insufficient immigration is.
population degrowth rate is higher than immigration. Also immigration doesn't come without issues.
I think that's due to immigration - not birthrates.
you're acting as though an immigrant from any of the dense population centers has the same impact as a native-born child on the culture and economy. that is false. sometimes it's for the better (in America, we have many well-educated immigrants from India and China). sometimes it's for the worse (see Europe's struggles with uneducated muslim immigrants from north Africa and the Middle East).importing large groups of people sometimes works; we did it pretty well in America
Immigration will make up for the difference.
You’re neglecting to consider immigration.
Only because of immigration. But eventually you run out of people to import...
What's wrong with immigration as a solution to birth rates
More immigration will fix this.
The immigration “issue” is actually because ain’t nobody having kids, and capitalism demands constant growth.