>>510208718
The real decline in birth rates happened in the mid '50s through mid '70s when effective birth control became widely available and the birth rate dropped by half in a very short period of time.
Because the birth rate has been fairly stable for the last 50 years, especially compared to the massive swings up and down in the first half of the 20th century. There have been dips up and down, but they are relatively small.
This idea that there has been a sudden, rapid, unprecedented drop in birth rates, or that there is something magical about replacement rate and that society goes from relatively stable to the verge of complete collapse as soon as the line drops below 2.1 is just not accurate at all.
Also, not that long ago everyone was freaking out about how AI and automation were going to eliminate most human jobs and were were suddenly going to have millions of excess, redundant people to have to deal with. Also all the fear mongering about peak oil and running out of clean water and food and other resources needed to keep 8 billion+ people alive.
Despite what the jews and boomers think, we don't actually need or want infinite exponential population growth.