The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one. I though a reducing population was a good thing for the environment. Now it’s bad?
Look Joe, another shiny object over there!
Good point. It was mentioned that an aging population tends to be more conservative. So that’s bad! We must bring in billions of “undocumented Democrats!” :-)
Population decline may not, in the long run, be a bad thing. The only downside that I see is that the young people will not be contributing enough to keep the Ponzi schemes known as Social Security and Medicare going without taking away from some other “social programs”, which may have to be rethought.
People will just have to keep on working well into what would have been retirement years, essentially working up to the day they die, if they have not made provisions for a continued cash flow from other than wages.
“I though a reducing population was a good thing for the environment. Now it’s bad?”
Having fewer children also opens up wonderful opportunities in carrels for women. You don’t hate women do you?
Now as to population increase via immigration, well, that’s really good for the environment. Studies have shown that third worlders have much smaller carbon footprints than first world population. By replacing first-worlders with third worlders, you are metaphorically taking the first world’s knee off of the environment’s neck. It can breathe again. Don’t you want St. George Floyd to be able to breathe?
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Frau Merkel actually told the Germans that they needed the invasion of Muslims and Africans so they could start working and paying taxes to fund the retirement plans of elder Germans. How’s that working for you Frau?
Sounds like Joe is looking around for a mistress who doesn’t have headaches all the time.