Present participle of 'depopulate': the ongoing process of greatly reducing a population or emptying a place of people.
From 'depopulate' with '-ing' suffix, describing the continuous action of population reduction.
Rural depopulation is happening right now in many countries as young people move to cities for jobs, leaving villages and farmlands increasingly empty—it's a modern echo of historical population shifts.
Passive voice in narratives of depopulation obscures perpetrators of forced displacement.
Use active voice to identify agents: 'policies depopulated X' rather than 'X was depopulating.'
["forcibly displacing","ethnically cleansing","causing mass exodus"]
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