From CGI member Morgan:

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So why is anyone upset about falling birthrates? Misery loves company? This place is crap, compared to the Otherside. Yes, there are places worse than here on that Otherside (The realm of the psychopath, amongst one.); but if you're there you deserve it, and it's NOT eternal. Everyone is destined to wake up sometime and move on, since everything in existence only has ONE SOURCE; which is beyond all knowledge and imagination. (Wakan Tanka, is the ideal description. Great Mystery in English.)

I guess people who decry low birth rates like high rent, stop and go traffic, noise pollution, pollution of all other sorts, more gubment control which seems to come with high population density, sardine can housing, high stress, and the list goes on.

I dunno. I can't understand people worth a dayam, anymore. They must be the most unpragmatic species in existence.

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Earth’s population may start to fall from 2040. Does it matter?

The conventional projection by the UN is that world population, currently 7.7 billion, will increase to 11.2 billion in 2100, then stabilise before slowly declining. However, current trends cast much doubt on this picture. Fertility rates are in dramatic decline worldwide and world population may peak below nine billion by 2050 and then decline.

In order for a human population to maintain its numbers, each woman must bear, on average, 2.1 children. If the birth rate exceeds 2.1, population numbers increase; if it is less than 2.1, population numbers decline. Birth rates below 2.1 have been common now since 1970. Ireland had a birth rate of 1.92 in 2016 but inward migration is contributing to population growth.

The UN World Fertility Patterns 2015 Report details birth rates (children per woman) for the major world regions – Africa 4.7, Asia 2.2, Europe 1.6, Latin America/Caribbean 2.2, North America 1.9, Oceania 2.4. The overall world fertility rate is 2.5. So world population numbers continue to grow.

World population trends were reviewed recently by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson in the Observer on January 27th. The authors seriously questioned the UN projection that world population numbers would continue to increase until 2100, quoting several well-respected demographers. Jorgen Randers, a Norwegian academic who decades ago warned of a potential global catastrophe caused by overpopulation, has changed his mind.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/earth-s-population-may-start-to-fall-from-2040-does-it-matter-1.3808527