Europe is dying. Not a single country has the required fertility rate (2.1) to maintain its population. Huge ramifications for the economy. And immigration alone cannot solve this.

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1. Fuck ‘em. I was forced to take 2 years of German in high school, and they won’t go beyond great great grandparents for getter a dual citizenship. I think Ireland does.

   It might be sour grapes, but they’d rather have a demographic collapse than allow the tens of millions of German heritage Americans to build ranch houses by the hundreds of thousands.

2. They did it to themselves.   They’ve destroyed western values and are going to suffer the consequences.  Looks like the eastern world will win in the end 

3. France is pretty interesting. They’re clearly doing something right

4. The capitalist regimes (ruling class) everywhere need cheap labor.

5. Incentivize childbirth and make homes affordable and perhaps this trend might change…..

6. Turkey 1.63?!!!! Wtf? Population of Turkey quadrupled from 1960.

7. They need to pay people to have kids.

8. I’m sure the uneducated Muslim immigrants that believe in sharia law will integrate well and help make up for their population decline.

9. Immigration will only make it worse.

10. This is how fucked up capitalism is. It needs unlimited, endless growth to survive, and then distorts all kinds of thinking. Maybe these areas are overpopulated and declining birthrates are a good thing? Why the fuck do people have to make fucking babies?

    Oh, right, because of fear of slavering hordes of dark people on the horizon. That’s right. It’s just racism.

11. Good.

    Our global population has DOUBLED just in the 40 or so years I’ve been alive. I find it hard to believe that — especially with increased efficiency and technology — we can’t get by with the same population we had back then.

    The reality is people want growth simply to fund the social (government) and capitalistic (stock market) Ponzi/pyramid schemes that have been put into place.

    Plot twist: those were never sustainable.

12. They won’t all die off, as the old people die space and opportunity will open up and people will start having kids again. The global population is still wildly out of control, idk who actually buys into this nonsense.

13. When ever I see this why doesn’t anyone say the obvious. I am pretty sure the #1 correlation of birth rate is the education scale of the women of the country. So unfortunately all of these posts are really kind of saying, let’s go Taliban and not let women be educated….

14. Automation means declining population isn’t really a problem… except every economy on the planet is built from the ground up for endless growth and nothing but endless growth.

    We’re either going to have to retool our economy or have another world war, only this time we’ve got nukes.

15. It’s either affordability or infertility. 

16. Just let the demographics play out. In the short term it will be painful, but in the long run population will stabilize and the planet will be better off.

17. Don’t worry the people from Africa will save the day

18. Just Europe huh? Do the same for all countries and you’ll see an interesting trend.

19. Immigration may not solve it… but they sure are tryin’!

20. Most of these countries have big Muslim immigration and they have lots of kids. Everything should work out okay.

21. Maybe a country where home ownership is only 45% has something to do with this. I would not want to have kids and rent for eternity.