Debt Rattle May 17 2018
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 17 2018]oxymoron
I today’s upsidedown world, declining birthrate is negative. It seems to be interpreted as a lowering of the fertility rate for a given population. IMO, it depends on many more factors than that simplistic view.
It (declining birthrate) is also used as a geopolitical marker of strength by the USians.
The west harps on Russia’s declining birthrate as proof of its weakness. That is bullshit for one simple reason; Russia’s birthrate is NOT in fact declining; but rather increasing, albeit slowly.
Look at countries that bought into neo-liberal economics; almost to the sum, their economies were wrecked and virtually all have declining birthrates; Russia never drank that koolaide after Putin and Nabiullina took control of the economics.Love the children.
Save the children from suffering and misery.
All refugee camps should have zero birth rates.Are these virtual/alternate universe babies?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001422/Busiest-maternity-ward-planet-averages-60-babies-day-mothers-bed.htmlOne born every minute: The maternity unit where mothers are THREE to a bed
60 Rohingya babies born per day in Cox’s Bazar camps
Excess worldwide human population is THE major problem on our finite planet. Decreasing birthrate is a blessing, not a curse, and the word “fertility” is definitely a multifactorial one. Imagine the population diminution after 10 generations in which the current birthrate was cut in half. Our idealistic concepts about ourselves vanish when most people are starving or otherwise unhealthy. Population control by decreasing the birth rate rather than increasing the death rate is always preferable IF it is fairly uniform across human populations and NOT engineered by suprematist genocidalists. Highly desirable would be much reduced human populations living in harmonious ecosystems with other living creatures in which the current usable energy influx was adequate to maintain a biosphere in equilibrium. All of this would necessitate an economic system which did not require infinite growth in a finite space.
The New Zealand Budget. Yeah Nah. It’s a start but there is so so much to do. Unfortunately this Government also believes the neo liberal claptrap that deficits are bad and surpluses are good and so we must not spend. Well not too much!! All you can hope is that it gets back it’s mojo for the next two budgets – it has a three year term
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