Hacker News with Generative AI: Population

US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023 (cnn.com)
The Low Fertility Fallacy: Why Panic About Birthrates Is Overblown (foreignaffairs.com)
Many politicians and pundits around the world have raised the alarm in recent years about declining fertility rates.
We Can Terraform the American West (wordpress.com)
We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing  30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it!
Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments (newyorker.com)
As the world population approached four billion in the nineteen-sixties, fears of overcrowding and urban decay were rampant.
Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities' Problems Are Our Biggest Problems (population.fyi)
"I don't believe there is a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities" - Walt Disney
China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s (bbc.com)
China will "gradually raise" its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget.
the US should place a value of $1.17M per additional birth (model-thinking.com)
China will have nearly twice the pets than young children by 2030 (cnbc.com)
Britain is running out of babies (edwest.co.uk)
China to raise retirement age as population gets older (bbc.com)
Global Population to Shrink This Century as Birth Rates Fall (ft.com)
Birth rates halve in richer countries as costs weigh, OECD report says (reuters.com)
Suddenly There Aren't Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed (wsj.com)
China's Population Could Shrink to Half by 2100 (scientificamerican.com)