It’s good to see this. Demography has not exactly been popularised before and now there’s an urgent need for everyone to understand both the long arcs that have for us here and the unforeseen futures of population development

I thought the point about fringe views was interesting. Because the population change (pillar not pyramid, leading to fertility panic) is such a novel phenomenon, there is no mainstream yet - so it’s hard to say what is fringe. My own indicator is does it make me cackle in disbelief (yeah but NO).

I think we were way too narrow in communicating population ageing and focused on later life instead of the whole-of-society sea change. Looking back, it was probably a result of the development policy sector approach that hasn’t exactly encouraged system thinking

💯 this. I feel so liberated now to frame the positive case for population ageing as being possibility-making, now that I'm not tripping over my tongue the whole time with trying to get the correct NGO language around the issue... Just feeling, thinking, reacting instead!