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#583 - Stephen J. Shaw - Is Population Collapse A Real Risk?

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What Does a Declining Birth Rate Mean for Economic Growth?

There are no examples of countries in history unless it was a period of famine or war that went down with such a low birth rate as we're seeing now and then rebalance itself. So when you, the transition is a problem. The transition is a bumpy ride. It's not like an airplane kind of slowly coming into land and we'll have this kind of resetly. People say there was only two billion people on the planet 100 years ago. Why is it a problem that we would go back to that?

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