While Demographic Winter was an interesting doc, and I actually agree with almost all of its claims, I just don’t think any of the problems of population decline are sufficiently great to warrant attempts to reverse it, or that reversing it is the only solution to these problems.
Problem one: economic decline as a result of population decline.
Good, I am all for the economy declining as a whole, because this helps protect the environment.
We don’t need to produce and consume half the stuff we do.
I am not concerned about economic decline for the upper classes, I am however concerned about it for the poorer classes.
My solution would be to rob the rich even more than I think we should already be robbing them, to compensate for economic decline.
If the economy grew for decades while the middle class shrunk and the working classes standard of living fell, I don’t see why the reverse can’t happen, that the economy can decline for decades while the middle class grows and the working classes standard of living rises.
Problem two: seniors equalling or perhaps outnumbering non-seniors.
Not as much of a problem as it sounds.
Japan has had an aging population for decades, and they haven’t compensated by importing millions of young foreigners, and while Japan has had to make adjustments, they manage.
Again most of the jobs people do today are superfluous, just fire some of those people, and hire them to take care of seniors, problem solved.
Problem three: immigration.
This is a problem, and politicians use population decline and resulting aging population and sluggish economy as another excuse why we need to import millions of foreigners a year, but again, we don’t, Japan is taking care of this problem on its own, and its economy, while perhaps not as robust and versatile as it used to be, for multiple reasons, not just population decline, is still growing, and they’re still one of the richest economies in the world, so it’s by no means an insurmountable challenge.
What I would do is put a stop to immigration, and pay millions of whites from Latin America and Eastern Europe to come here, free plane tickets and set them up nicely, give them as many incentives to come as reasonably possible, until the white population comprises 90% of the total population or more, which is where it needs to be.
Problem four: real estate.
Old age pensioners are dying, and many of them are not going to be able to sell their homes to young citizens, because there aren’t as many.
The solution these days it seems is to sell homes to rich foreigners, and that’s sad, if I were prime minister, I would make that illegal.
Sorry old age pensioners, but you don’t need the money, I want to see your housing prices come way the fuck down, and young people able to buy them for dirt cheap, fuck you bastards.
Don’t sell them to foreigners, you assholes, sell them to young working class people for working class money, or just give them to your kids, problem solved, stop whining.
That being said, the doc has made me rethink something.
Some countries are more overpopulated than others, and while Europe is definitely overpopulated, there’s hardly any wilderness there anymore, it’s almost all farmland and urban, the US I’m not as sure about, and Canada is definitely not overpopulated.
Perhaps it would actually be good for countries like Canada to maintain their population level, or even grow a little, I’ll have to reconsider this, but of course it should grow on its own, shouldn’t be importing people from abroad, unless they’re coming from places like Argentina and Poland.
I’ll have to think on this, but for Canada, perhaps government can give people socioeconomic incentives to have more kids so the white population is at replacement level, or slightly above.
Ultimately however, human population needs to decline as a whole, it’s just some countries need to decline much more than others, and additionally we need to consume a hell of a lot less, particularly rich people, the poor shouldn’t have to produce all this junk and waste to buy the necessities of life, the necessities of life should be cheap.