[the_omegist]

Nothing new, here...

As we're on a tech oriented website, I am surprised at the purely "sociological/political" perspectives in the comments. If no significant upheaval in westernized societies (à la "mad max"), the cultural norms won't be changed, so the decline in population won't be fought through social/societal means.

That's why I am rather intrigued by the future technological consequences of all this :

- accelerated automation : some countries might embrace their demographic declien and go all-in (Japan was the model but seems they are stagnating, now...) - new (technical) challenges about how to deal with more and more old people and less youth to do so ("Roujin Z" is a take on this) - where are artificial wombs? Seems sooner or later it might become the de facto standard way of having children, in a (not so?) far enough future...