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Chapter 209 - 209 209 Ethical Refutation
Chapter 209 - 209 209 Ethical Refutation
?Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Ethical Refutation Chapter 209: Chapter 209: Ethical Refutation It’s not that it was a societal welfare system, but rather its preceding plan—using artificial womb technology to massively breed human infants, in order to achieve a 5% population growth rate every year. In fact, many people had already been informed of this proposal and had discussed it for some time, but the controversies were still quite significant.
Mr. Zhang Yuan suppressed the crowd and slowly began, “Ladies and gentlemen, according to our population report, how many were born last year? The exact figure, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, a fertility rate of point three six percent. The birth rate is extremely low, alarmingly so! Indeed, our population structure is still very young, with a mortality rate of zero. Add to that the low quality of life and poor objective conditions, delaying childbirth for a few years doesn’t seem like much.”
“But consider, what happens in fifty years?”
“In fifty years, our average age will have risen by fifty years. Those sitting here will be eighty, even ninety years old. How many young people will there be? 100,000!”
“Yes, with a growth rate of point three six percent, in fifty years, there will only be 100,000 young people! The total population will be merely six hundred thousand, and that is with a mortality rate of zero.”
“Fifty years!”
As if a sense of crisis exploded in many people’s hearts.
The current developmental model was clearly unsustainable.
“Your Excellency Mr. Zhang Yuan, we could adopt policies to encourage childbirth, rather than aggressively opting for artificial infants…”
The female representative in the audience immediately stood up, passionately saying, “The impact on our society is too great… so great it’s unimaginable! Have you considered the reality?”