you realize basically every single western country has a decreasing population, right?

Not decreasing fast enough. Also ‘western countries’ is irrelevant. It’s about global population.

We’re at 8 billion humans globally. A good goal would be a global population of 10 million.

Same in the Netherlands and it’s absolutely crazy. We already have too many humans, why stimulate procreation when we don’t even have enough housing for the humans that already exist.

Buying household groceries or anything of size sounds annoying or impossible on bike.

Not sure why buying groceries on a bike would be annoying or impossible. I do all my grocery shopping by bike, every single day, sometimes twice a day. Just bring a backpack.

As for ‘anything of size’, what would you need to transport? I still have a car, but I use it so little that I only need to buy gas maybe once or twice a year.