Histrionics and hysteria.

Yeah, there are some chickens coming home to roost and there are legit problems with labor right now.

But without fixing the problems that led to where we are, throwing more babies into the mix will not solve those problems. They weren’t caused by the population demographics; ergo increasing the population won’t corrext them.

You’re delusional if you can’t realize that the population is going ronresuce one way or another. If you think a controlled decline is scary, take a look at what happens when populations overshoot their carrying capacity.

We need to reduce. We either do it mindfully or nature does it for us.

You don’t want option #2. That’s exactly where Tech-bro rhetoric and protonatalism leads.