Fertility rates in East Asia are plummeting at an alarming pace. Recent data highlight that Korea and Hong Kong SAR are among the most impacted, with their total fertility rates (TFR) – a measure indicating the average number of children a woman would give birth to during her lifetime – sinking to
The article talks about a study showing that housing prices won’t be affordable for current generations and express it’s a bad thing because of it hurts those generations causing a rise of mental illness and unmet family goals
How is that absurd?
Additionally, declining populations carry some other serious issues for countries. The problem with the planet isn’t the number of people, it’s the wasteful lifestyles so many of us live.