We'd vacillate between:And if this were taking place in America, what would we play? "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"?
The Stars & Stripes and
Dvorak's New World
We'd vacillate between:And if this were taking place in America, what would we play? "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"?
Ah, how I wish we had a "Stay Home and Make Sweet Beautiful Love To Make Babies" day here in the US.
Maybe I'll call in sick tomorrow...![]()
The whole point is that Russia is in a demographic crisis. This has nothing to do with "enjoying family time." They aren't having enough babies to keep their population at stable levels. It's happening all over Europe, and Russia is one of the hardest-hit. The birth rate is in serious decline, leaving a terribly smaller working population to support the older, retired generation.
Yes absolutely right. And capitalism doesn't work and it is therefore unable to give a sustainable soloution to this modern conundrum and it was never more demonstrable than in the previous statement of fact. We have 2 billion old therefore we need more young but they too themselves get old. We now have 4 billion old people and so we need more working young but they themselves are now old. We have 10 billion old and therefore ..... No wilderness, no animals, no space, no privacy just vast factory farms and CCTV brain implants. Just keep rutting and consuming.
Back to the present and near future. Migration will fill the void especially as it is usually from communities that can't stop breeding.
This is still a terrible reason for making babies. You have children so that you can love them and nuture them and enjoy them. You don't have them for patriotic reasons such as propagating the state -- or to win prizes.And associating baby-making with patriotism has been around for a long time. A prominent example of this is Italian policies under Mussolini where having more children was encouraged to propagate the Italian state, culture and race.
This is still a terrible reason for making babies. You have children so that you can love them and nuture them and enjoy them. You don't have them for patriotic reasons such as propagating the state -- or to win prizes.
I think you're missing the point. In Russia, Europe, the United States and Canada, the fertility rate is less than what is required to sustain the current population. In many of these countries, such as Russia and France, the population is shrinking, while in others, such as Canada, the population is only sustained by net migration. Followed to its logical conclusion, in the absence of net migration, the decline of fertility rates in the West and Russia would eventually lead to zero population in these parts of the world. You can argue that the void will be filled with net migration, but this will result in a tremendous change in world demographics. In addition, the resultant loss of biologic diversity in the human species will cause a substantial increase in disease susceptibility and genetic defects. In addition, net migration can never address the relative lack of children in our current demographics, so the imbalance between old and young will continue.Yes absolutely right. And capitalism doesn't work and it is therefore unable to give a sustainable soloution to this modern conundrum and it was never more demonstrable than in the previous statement of fact. We have 2 billion old therefore we need more young but they too themselves get old. We now have 4 billion old people and so we need more working young but they themselves are now old. We have 10 billion old and therefore ..... No wilderness, no animals, no space, no privacy just vast factory farms and CCTV brain implants. Just keep rutting and consuming.
Back to the present and near future. Migration will fill the void especially as it is usually from communities that can't stop breeding.
I didn't say I agreed with the plan, it's just that the poster I responded to didn't seem to understand the objective of this particular mayor.
And your logic is completely flawed. There is such thing as a birth rate that keeps the population stable. If that birth rate were achieved in places such as this village in Russia, there wouldn't be a crisis of population either way, too few or too many.
I think you're missing the point. In Russia, Europe, the United States and Canada, the fertility rate is less than what is required to sustain the current population. In many of these countries, such as Russia and France, the population is shrinking, while in others, such as Canada, the population is only sustained by net migration.
Hello MA. No I didn't think that you agreed with it either! And as for my logic not holding water well the population is increasing exponentially and it has to do so if the present economic model is kept. Kept forever until catastrophe hits. Irreversible catastrophe that is. As an environmentalist I already know we are in the sh*t due to consumerism, waste and over population and the only thing capitalism can come up with is to do it even more; to spend and consume out of recession, breed to increase the young working population to pay for the old etc ad lib to nauseam.
Am I the only person who see's this as a bit grim? Imagine being born for a competition.