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It's not? I was under the assumption that the world's population is increasing (more growth rates than death rates), leading to a greater requirement for food, water, and other resources that the planet will be unable to meet unless birth rates are lowered, we create a more sustainable environment, or we have a higher mortality rate. My comment was also a joke.
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Birth rates in this area of the world are such that the population would be in decline if not for artificial population increase through immigration.