Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine
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Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”
    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Right-wingers reach for these religious or moralistic justifications and laws, but Putin is probably just noticing, like many other countries, that their economy is screwed if their birth rates continue to decline. And yet the planet is screwed if we continue to increase. As climate change eats away at the habitable areas of the planet, the obvious thing is for habitable countries with declining birth rates to accept many immigrants from places climate causes people to flee from. This will help those people and help the receiving country’s economy. Unfortunately the right wing is also too wrapped up in xenophobia to accept this solution. They’d rather double down on controlling women.

      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        18 days ago

        I recently heard a “housing expert” say that cities have to keep growing, there’s no sustainable static level of population, and I thought “there’s better be or we’re all fucked.”

        The problem with capitalism is that it only works if there’s perpetual growth, which (as many before me have pointed out) is the logic of cancer.

        • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          18 days ago

          Tbf, people moving from rural areas to more dense and urban areas is kind of inevitable as time goes on. Megacities when?

          • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            18 days ago

            And why is that “inevitable?” Is it because capitalism makes agrarian life basically impossible?

            The problem with studies based on any current trends is that they are all framed with the assumption that capitalism will continue to be the dominant socioeconomic system.