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Ken Ilgunas on depopulation: What good will come from it?

As I have argued before, we should relax about declining birth rates. Like any other change, declining populations will cause some problems and solve others, and it’s not at all clear that the net outcome will be bad. For example, declining populations may be associated with higher per capita economic growth. Here is Ken Ilgunas going through some of the other good things that may come from declining populations.