ELi5 Why is population decline a problem

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If we are running out of resources and increasing pollution does a smaller population not help with this? As a species we have shrunk in numbers before and clearly increased again. Really keen to understand more about this.

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big generalisations obviously but population decline is normally because there’s fewer younger people (they’ve either emigrated or not being born in the first place). fewer young people means less things get done since older people are more likely to be retired and/or grumpy and old. new people bring in new ideas and stuff so everything kind of stagnates.

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