How do you propose to institute a regimen of, as you say, voluntary sterilization without government involvement? A Walmart Sterilization Center, where you get a voucher for taking the needle? When the people actually decide they want to be involved in governing themselves, I can see such high-mindedness almost working. I say almost because no population would be likely to forego power so readily as to choose to march toward extinction. The nobility of "diminishing and going into the west" is beautiful in Tolkien, but offers shoes too big for men to fill.
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