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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Why we still think ‘growthist ideology’ is right Readers challenged The Post’s Editorial Board on whether growth is good. Here’s our response. Washington Post  Population 8 July, 2024 | 762 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆   America’s fertility rate is plummeting, with profound consequences for the country’s economic and political future. But is a declining birth rate something to lament or to celebrate? Our recent editorial on the “birthrate bomb” elicited understandably strong reactions. Many readers took issue with our focus on how declining fertility rates might weaken the U.S. economy. “Endless growth — whether that’s of the population or the economy — is an unachievable fantasy,” one wrote. Another wrote: “Now is the time to reject growthist ideology for good.” These reactions reflect a growing intellectual fad: “degrowth.” Degrowthers offer a substantial critique of the tendency to prioritize ………………………………