The article discusses the global decline in birth rates, especially highlighting the alarming situation in South Korea, where the birth rate is at a historic low. This phenomenon is seen as concerning by some, particularly right-wing activists who regard it as a major threat to society, whereas others dismiss these fears as exaggerated. The piece explores the visible impacts of population decline in South Korea, depicting a future that looks unsettling as societal structures adapt to fewer children, raising questions about the sustainability of human civilization in the long run.
Declining fertility rates have become a near-universal phenomenon; in the U.S., the rate has dropped roughly twenty percent in the past two decades.
In South Korea, which has the lowest birth rate of any nation, signs of a population in decline are visible everywhere, with day-care facilities converted into nursing homes.
The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish, but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.
Right-wing activists view depopulation as a threat greater than climate change, contrasting with the left's dismissal of their fears as scaremongering.
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