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1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 13:24:43 EST Ji Fu
   I have been seeing more and more articles and thoughts like this about needing to increase #birthrates. This is from RT.com but its certainly not unique to #Russian nationalism. Are all of these "fears" related to a general increase in #nationalism world-wide? I don't recall the last time I saw anyone upset about #OverPopulation but the global population is still increasing at rates that are higher than I was taught in #publicSchool where #sustainable.@realcaseyrollins ✝️ https://social.teci.world/users/realcaseyrollins
   Men must work, women must give birth - Russian mayor https://www.rt.com/russia/591667-men-work-women-birth/
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 14:36:41 EST lnxw48a1

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      @fu I'd say there's definitely overpopulation. But for each individual nation, reversing population growth brings the potential hazard of too many retirees for the work-age population to support.
      
      As far as I know, this hasn't happened in any nation yet, but the prospect scares political leaders (and especially nationalists, who want to fill the world with people of their nationality and loyal to their government)
      
      Also, if you're Russia and you've been preparing to start wars of reconquest since 2008 or so, the possibility of population growth soon becoming negative necessarily means that your war has to occur sooner rather than later.