Korea��s Q2 fertility rate drops to record low of 0.7 amid population decline - Pulse by Maeil Business News Korea
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South Korea��s total fertility rate has hit an all-time low in the second quarter of this year, with the number of newborns declining for the ninth consecutive month. At this pace, the country��s total fertility rate this y
  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    275·
    1 year ago

    Cool. The sooner human population starts to go down the better it will be the the rest of the planet.

    • Mangosniper@feddit.de
      134·
      1 year ago

      Well yes. But it is the same as like quitting smoking and drinking as a heavy abuser from one to the other day. Your next few weeks will be not so cool. On this case it will be not so cool decades

      • Mkengine@feddit.de
        42·
        1 year ago

        Looking here the fertility rate is declining since the 1960s, so I wouldn’t say 60 years is like quitting from one day to another, they had more than enough time to tackle the problem.

        • Mangosniper@feddit.de
          92·
          1 year ago

          Oh yes yes. Of course the time would be enough to apply policies to tackle the problems created by this. However my experience of humanity so far is that those time will not be properly used to tackle the problems 🙃 therefore it will still feel like a cold turkey (IMHO)

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
        53·
        1 year ago

        Sorry but we humans have been fucking over the planet and our impact needs to be reduced ASAP.

        We have blithely caused catastrophic damage to the ecosystem and have continued to do so for decades after we had the knowledge and capacity to reverse the effects.

        The argument the whole time against changing our ways has been but it will hurt the economy

        Well, we are now reaping what we sowed, so Fuck the economy and let the find out phase begin as soon as possible.

          • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
            23·
            1 year ago

            I am not a capitalist. I beleive in degrowth and communalism

            Honestly?

            Your politics are irreverent, you are still Humans first and only.

            The earth is in the middle of the sixth and fastest mass extension in the planets 3,500,000,000 years that life has existed.

            It is only the second caused by a single species. The other was the great oxygenation event caused by Cyanobacteria.

            The big difference is that we know the destruction we are causing and are doing nothing

            Personally, the best thing that could have happened to planet earth would have been for COVID to have had a mortality rate of 30-95%.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
      121·
      1 year ago

      IIRC: The rate in Japan has been below replacement level (2.1) for longer but the rate in SK has been falling faster and has now passed Japan.

      Edit:
      Just did some quick research:

      First year below 2.1

      Japan: 1975

      Sth Korea: 1984

      Year Sth Korea dropped below Japan’s rate and kept falling: 2001.

  • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    Good. Only rich assholes or nationalists want population growth right now. Less people and labor bargaining power are both wonderful things

  • agarorn@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    Will be interesting to see how the countries with a decline manage (japan, Russia, Korea come to mind)

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    1 year ago

    Clearly this is a genocide, right? Y’all libs have been screaming about Xinjiang where the birthrate declined from 11 to 4, which means the Uyghur population increasing under this supposed genocide. Clearly if the Korean birthrate is below 1 this must be a super genocide and we need to get in there and save those oppressed Koreans.