Consider that Japan, the birthplace of anime, has one of the world’s lowest birthrates. The West, too, is seeing a decline, particularly among younger generations who are less likely to marry and have children compared to their predecessors.
Why is that such a horrible thing, the decline in birth rates? There’s over 8 billion people on this planet right now, and I’m guessing that that is still increasing. Is there something Brian here is leaving unsaid, like he’d rather have certain people’s birth rates increase instead of others??
(also, damn, I was looking up world population by year, and there was 4.2 billion people when I was born in 1977. So that means my lifetime has seen close to a doubling in the world population!)