Wed Jun 29, 2022 – 9:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Warnings of population decline have entered mainstream commentary in recent months and years. Tesla founder Elon Musk has consistently warned that declining birth rates present “one of the biggest risks to civilization.”
Last week, a column published by Bloomberg also picked up the thread, explaining that the long-observed population slump in Japan is an ”early signal of the same problems that are coming for everywhere else.”
“A declining population and plummeting fertility rate isn’t a unique Japanese phenomenon,” wrote Bloomberg News senior editor Gearoid Reidy, who covers news about Japan and previously held the role of Tokyo deputy bureau chief.
“All rich countries will contend with this crisis,” he said.
Almost every country in Europe lies below the 2.1 total fertility rate level needed to maintain the population, with countries including Croatia, Portugal and Greece all set to lose similar levels to Japan over the next three decades https://t.co/5tJj48zZhI
— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) June 23, 2022
In the June 21 article, Reidy remarked, “The world has an obsession with Japan’s shrinking population. Each year, news that the country is a little bit smaller can reliably be
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