"The Robot Revolution Will Negate Population Decline"

I broadly agree with her. Automation is a big wildcard that might just bail us out of this mess just at the right time.

The first article is all over the place. First she writes about age-discrimination and different intelligences. While broadly true (obviously old people know more stuff), anybody who had the misfortune to try to teach their grandparents or even their parents something new knows first hand how much IQ falls with age. Most scientists who make big discoveries do so before 35 years old. This is all pure cope on the same level as "everybody is beautiful if they have good personality"

Demographer Ron Lee of the University of California, Berkeley, and others have shown that GDP per person, and hence living standards, are highest when fertility falls just below replacement level (around 2.1 births per woman) – to 1.6 or even less.

Duh. Obviously economy will be more productive in the short term if people invest resources into work instead of children.

>Policies limiting carbon emissions and plastic waste would be far more effective and timely tools for undoing or at least mitigating the damage we’ve done to the planet.

>limiting plastic waste mitigating the damage to the planet

Meme "science" communication. Plastic is not bad for the environment and produces much less GHG than using paper or any other packaging. With the caveat that microplastics could be bad, but we don't know yet while GHG is a known danger so deserves much more priority.

Her stuff on immigration is similar, she mentions one study that I can think of tons of explanation why high immigration in the past is correlated with high living standards today. Most simple is that they were good places then and just compounded the benefit