Why we shouldn’t worry about falling birthrates

The word “stable” is also misleading, since it implies that positive or zero population growth is unequivocally desirable, and that negative growth undesirable. In reality, all population growth patterns come with challenges. It’s true that fast negative growth can burden governments, since it means they may struggle to pay for elder care, but fast positive growth tends to burden families, who pay most of the costs of caring for children. More importantly, the difference between slow positive and slow negative growth is probably not meaningful or even perceptible to the average person.