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23. Japan is finally embracing immigration. You keep brushing immigration off

Reply to sharedvalues (Reply #17)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 12:23 PM

Dec 2018

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Today we know that in developing countries, young people need to be present to keep the countries economically stable. ... Although people believed other things in the 70s, they were wrong. Having kids is good, if you want to.

"We know... they were wrong". OK. (As he blew off everything in post#15 except that it is "the gospel of despair"

About the gospel of despair. And nobody in the 70's or now that I know of said that we didn't need young people. We can have fewer children and more immigration and still have plenty of young people and have a healthy economy.

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NY Magazine Writer "Confronts" Parenthood In Climate-Flattened World, Exudes Panglossian Goo [View all] hatrack Dec 2018 OP

I do not get it. Delphinus Dec 2018 #1

"Man, it must have been really EXCITING during the Black Death! It'll be AWESOME!!!" hatrack Dec 2018 #2

Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children Auggie Dec 2018 #3

No. American overpopulation is not the major problem sharedvalues Dec 2018 #5

You incorrectly modified the issue by adding the word "American." Population is a global problem. Auggie Dec 2018 #7

Right. Americans should have more babies. sharedvalues Dec 2018 #9

No, Americans should not have more babies NickB79 Dec 2018 #10

Americans should have more babies: ask experts sharedvalues Dec 2018 #11

Um, immigration progree Dec 2018 #12

+1 Auggie Dec 2018 #13

Americans should have more babies AND welcome immigrants sharedvalues Dec 2018 #14

Americans needs to have fewer babies. Do you not take what is posted in this group seriously? progree Dec 2018 #15

You're preaching the gospel of despair. sharedvalues Dec 2018 #19

What happened to immigration? progree Dec 2018 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author progree Dec 2018 #21

"You're preaching the gospel of despair." progree Dec 2018 #22

All those things are good. Good for you. sharedvalues Dec 2018 #26

Americans need to have fewer kids if they wish to reduce the problems in post #15 progree Dec 2018 #29

Expecting infinite growth on a planet of finite resources NickB79 Dec 2018 #32

I really wish Donald Trump's parents hadn't procreated (or Donald himself). Bluepinky Dec 2018 #6

Optimism is a choice-- optimism is an ethic sharedvalues Dec 2018 #4

So is sticking one's head in the sand. progree Dec 2018 #16

I prefer truth sharedvalues Dec 2018 #17

Japan is finally embracing immigration. You keep brushing immigration off progree Dec 2018 #23

Both. Kids and immigration. sharedvalues Dec 2018 #24

It's one planet. Adding 1 billion people every 13 years. progree Dec 2018 #25

No, they do not. sharedvalues Dec 2018 #27

We need to decrease population growth progree Dec 2018 #28

What infrastructure is that again? NickB79 Dec 2018 #33

I have one American kid. violetpastille Dec 2018 #31

We're going to lose half the species on this planet NickB79 Dec 2018 #8

No, our outlook is ok sharedvalues Dec 2018 #18

I don't see the problem. Loki Liesmith Dec 2018 #30

IMO the Earth's biosphere can support very few humans over the long term. The_jackalope Dec 2018 #34