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Declining population, my ass. There were less than 4.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. That fash-hole is only worried that white people will represent a minority of the future population. Nothing more.
Decline population is an actual thing...? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.
Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.
Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.
There's even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea
Blue indicates below replacement levels:
Damn, Africa FUCKS.
Decades of the Catholic church demonizing birth control methods and claiming condoms cause AIDS will do that do a continent.
No... Not really. This happens to literally every country as it develops.
Africa is experiencing Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition