If we just had a bunch of pegs on a board representing population across the planet, and tried to balance it out so that no country on earth had a declining populat any more, how much different would the planet look? You're talking about hundreds of millions in population rooms happening in supseher an, africa, in south asia. If you want to smooth that out, that would be a very different world. I think a future where people can move much more freely is going to be a better future. But it's a tough political ask, it seems, both here in the ason and in a lot of parts ofParts of the world. Ere seeing resistance
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight population decline by paying some citizens to have more kids. But a real solution involves one weird trick Hungary — and US conservatives — hates.
This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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