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   fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:01:02 JST 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
   Men must work, women must give birth - Russian mayor
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     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:36:41 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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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.
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     minerva koenig (minervakoenig@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:51:26 JST minerva koenig

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     @fu https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:51:26 JST fu

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     @minervakoenig I read the article. Perhaps I am missing something . I am not clear what is related to my post such that it makes sense for the URL alone to be a reply. Any insight?
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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:09:40 JST fu

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     I just looked at the article again and the word overpopulation is not there. What did they reference that you associated with overpopulation? It felt ti me that they kept skating around it.
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     minerva koenig (minervakoenig@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 20:09:42 JST minerva koenig

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     @fu It mentions overpopulation as an issue related to climate change. I agree that overpopulation is not mentioned or discussed often enough in relation to climate change, as this is the first article I've seen in years that does so.