Yeah, mostly because they've got no more births to reduce lol. Keep in mind these are the worst countries in Asia, though. There's still plenty that have decent birth rates (for now)
Experts have generally agreed that any reduction in population size will come far too late to help with the current climate crisis. We're either going to hit sustainability with our current population or die in the process.
Yeah it's a bit of a hyperbole, but the rate is what's important. By the time we hit worldwide negative growth rates (which is projected to happen this century), it's going to be way too late to have a discussion about whether or not that's a good thing.
They were trying to use AI to sort out submissions by genre, length, etc. Just grunt work. This should in theory be a perfect use case of AI. Seems like an overreaction.
"What's unfortunately happened for these young people is that because of the toxicity of the debate, they've often been bypassed by local services who've been really nervous about seeing them," Dr Cass said.
"So rather than doing the things that they would do for other young people with depression, or anxiety, or perhaps undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorder, they've tended to pass them straight on to the Gid service."
"There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behaviour," she said.
Her report added that the "exceptional" toxicity has had a negative impact on the quality and availability of evidence.
There's nothing objectionable or controversial in this article, yet it's getting downvoted to heck. Good object example of how legitimate discussion of the topic is being suppressed
At least they're self aware.
https://archive.ph/yu3mr for the lazy