> But even as a concept, this particular one doesn’t resonate with our current anxieties, because overpopulation is more worrying than population decline.
Yet there are demographers who very much worry about it[1]. They sometimes call it the "demographic winter".
The decrease of birth rates is already observed in most developed countries, and it does not turn into population decline mostly because of immigration, so this kind of reflects to what is described in the movie, even if the movie shows an extreme version of it with a supernatural element (the sudden halt of worldwide fertility).
Yet there are demographers who very much worry about it[1]. They sometimes call it the "demographic winter".
The decrease of birth rates is already observed in most developed countries, and it does not turn into population decline mostly because of immigration, so this kind of reflects to what is described in the movie, even if the movie shows an extreme version of it with a supernatural element (the sudden halt of worldwide fertility).
1. https://books.google.com/books/about/Essai_de_prospective_d%...
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