38 people have given 493 responses
Statements with the highest number of 👍 or the highest number of 👎 appear at the top (if everyone thinks 👎, that's consensus too)
Build lots of cheap housing
Reducing necessary working hours to achieve a good standard of living (UBI, very high hourly wages, etc.)
Reduce opportunity cost of raising children by reducing national hourly wages
Subsidise daycare
Check women's periods
Pay a lot to new parents
Reduce legal red tape (cost of childcare, size of car seats)
Abolish NHS
Growth in the human population is slowing naturally through people's individual choices. We shouldn't interfere with this.
Declining fertility is a good thing because it will help us live within planetary boundaries.
Re-anchor people with the following article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children
Build rickety skyscrapers in huge numbers
Tax those with no or few children
Extending fertility windows of women
reduce social stigmas around polyamory and having children with multiple people
The population has grown due to the explosion of energy made available from fossil fuels. If we're reaching the limits of this energy expansion, then it's natural that fertility will decline.
Policy levers are effective at raising fertility
Artificial wombs
build lots more suburban housing
Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of energy. Rely only on institutions of common law.
Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of childcare. Rely only on institutions of common law.
Get the Church of England to ratify the conclusion of their 1908 and 1920 Lambeth Conference. I.e.: They should strongly discourage contraception
Social praise for those who have lots of kids
Extending fertility windows of women
Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of healthcare. Rely only on institutions of common law.
Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of housing. Rely only on institutions of common law.
Reduce university subsidies
Be patient. In the medium-run, evolution will win.