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Birth dearth means that industrialized nations are falling below a replacement level of reproduction. This says nothing about overpopulation on a global level, nor does it entail a drop in population within these countries so long as immigration is allowed. This is why the claim that birth dearth and overpopulation are incompatible is simply nonsense. If you want to claim otherwise, back it up with sufficient citations. Al 02:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry Alienus,
That was my mistake. I thought you'd said that it was incompatible with over population...my mistake. Chooserr 02:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I added the templates to the article, asthe whole article is NPOV and also need citing. Zero population is not seen as a "blight", "dilema", "problem", "disaster" by others, it is POV to describe it as such. The problem was the rampant and ill-considered breeding done by the baby-boomers - this is my POV however, hence i do not write it into articles without attributing it to reliable sources. Yobmod ( talk) 12:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Though some words do come across as POV the decline of the word population coupled with population aging is not seen as "good" by many international and national organizations such as the U.N. and various world governments. Also the baby-boomers spurred economic growth and cultural development (Rock N' Roll?) by providing a larger market and an overwhelming youth culture.
Michael-Lucas Aubrey (
talk) 20:13, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
When societies plan for growing populations, set up infrastructure systems for them, set up pension systems that depend on them, and then the babies simply aren't born in sufficient numbers, things go bad. Whether it's China's 4-2-1 problem, the impending bankruptcy of the US Social Security system with SSDI going down in 2018 and main SS no longer being able to pay promised benefits in 2036 (according to the [2011 trustees report http://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/index.html]) none of these situations can be described as anything but undesirable. TMLutas ( talk) 06:27, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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The article discussing the term is essentially discussing the book of the same name, so I suggest a new page be made about the book that also explains the term DukeofCarniola ( talk) 08:48, 23 October 2023 (UTC)