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by romaaeterna 2526 days ago
Isn't the EU-28 fertility rate only 1.58? That's actually population crash levels. You do, in fact, have a great epidemic of people who are going to die alone.
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It's only a crash because we say it is.

What if it's a healthy reaction to bad conditions or overpopulation? Now note the child bearing rates in second degree immigrants (naturalized) to see how true it is. Do you consider that a crash of their population? A crash is when population actually shrinks which it has not to date. It's stabilizing thus far.

The more important crash part is of the ill-conceived social and capital programmes expecting forever exponential growth. Guess what, that's wrong.