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re: The plummeting birthrate is an impending catastrophe.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:42 am to RealDawg
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:42 am to RealDawg
The world could use fewer people. The problem is the educated folk in the west aren’t having kids. And the third worlders won’t stop having kids. So the geniuses in charge in the West want to flood their own countries with the third world.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:43 am to Slippy
US birth rate has been below replacement level for more than 5 decades
and yet our population has increased by 65% since then (204M to 336M)
and yet our population has increased by 65% since then (204M to 336M)
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:45 am to Slippy
I've done my part with my 3, then got clipped
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:48 am to Slippy
Just think, we're living in the time with the most people ever
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:48 am to UGATiger26
how many more years can earth support the way humans are living now? we are blowing thru all of the resources available. I just dont see how we can support this modern style of living hundreds of years from now. so we either need way less people or find a way to get onto other planets or celestial objects to get more raw materials. people in the distant future may be going back to a more primitive lifestyle if we cant figure something out. Either that or we get hit by a asteroid or have some other sever weather event that causes wide scale death and destruction and sets the human race way back.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:52 am to Slippy
There are 8 billion people on this planet. That’s too many. The day this world can’t feed this many mouths is when the manure will really hit the fan. A couple of bad crop years globally and what a mess it will become. I remember when I was in 3rd grade the population of this country was around 221 million. Now you can’t even drive in most cities in a timely manner because there are too many people. From 1950 to 2010, the world population increased from 2.5 billion to 6.9 billion. That’s 174%. A dozen years later we have another billion. Not sure how population is in decline. The numbers reflect a significant increase in growth.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:53 am to RealDawg
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Is declining population bad?
No, it's actually the best thing for this world as it stands.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:55 am to Earthquake 88
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There are 8 billion people on this planet. That’s too many. The day this world can’t feed this many mouths is when the manure will really hit the fan. A couple of bad crop years globally and what a mess it will become. I remember when I was in 3rd grade the population of this country was around 221 million. Now you can’t even drive in most cities in a timely manner because there are too many people. From 1950 to 2010, the world population increased from 2.5 billion to 6.9 billion. That’s 174%. A dozen years later we have another billion. Not sure how population is in decline. The numbers reflect a significant increase in growth.
there are probably billions of people across the world struggling to eat right now. Then think about how much rice and beans gets thrown away at mexican restaurants across the US daily.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:55 am to Slippy
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[insert anything] is an impending catastrophe.
the quickest way to make me think something isn't that big of a deal
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:57 am to Slippy
I don’t see anything wrong with this, the only impending catastrophe is the high birth rates in Africa. They are fricked
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:58 am to Slippy
It's not a problem. When the United States peaked in the 1950s, we had about 180 million people.
The only entities who this may be a problem for are corporations who, god forbid, may have to compete for workers and actually offer them a living wage.
"Muh social security" I don't care. It is going to be insolvent by 2035 and I will never see a dime from it anyway. It is just a colossal ponzi scheme.
Funny how all of the environmentalists so concerned about sustainability either openly shill for mass immigration or continue to turn a blind eye to it.
Also, a declining population should help lower housing costs. Fewer people=less demand=lower prices.
The only entities who this may be a problem for are corporations who, god forbid, may have to compete for workers and actually offer them a living wage.
"Muh social security" I don't care. It is going to be insolvent by 2035 and I will never see a dime from it anyway. It is just a colossal ponzi scheme.
Funny how all of the environmentalists so concerned about sustainability either openly shill for mass immigration or continue to turn a blind eye to it.
Also, a declining population should help lower housing costs. Fewer people=less demand=lower prices.
This post was edited on 4/14/23 at 11:01 am
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:59 am to GetCocky11
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It is only an impending catastrophe because of the metric ton of old people from the boomer generation who need to be supported.
I hope you don't get old.
Nor procreate.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:01 am to Slippy
A little alarmist, don't ya think?
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:01 am to Slippy
I think a drastic population reduction (caused by less birthing) is great. Give us a few decades of lower birthrates and eventually the rates will kick back up. I see no problem for humanity over it. We aren't going to stop being fertile.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:02 am to Slippy
Too many people in the world as it is
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:02 am to Slippy
I would've guessed the Central and South American birth rates would be higher. Africa picking up the slack for the rest of the world.
This post was edited on 4/14/23 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:05 am to Slippy
They called it a pending catastrophe when they claimed we can’t sustain the growth and now it’s a catastrophe because they claim we cannot sustain lower birth rates?
It’s the fundraising flavor of the day.
We’ll be fine.
It’s the fundraising flavor of the day.
We’ll be fine.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:06 am to SixthAndBarone
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Give us a few decades of lower birthrates and eventually the rates will kick back up
No they will not.
The current rate will continue to lower. There's no coming back.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:07 am to AUriptide
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No, it's actually the best thing for this world as it stands.
Not when you have a nation of poor and not enough wealth to support them.
They'll come after you.
The worlds population will start shrinking in less than 50 years, with the poor destroying the wealthy.
This post was edited on 4/14/23 at 11:09 am
Posted on 4/14/23 at 11:11 am to Slippy
But we are getting more robots and sentient cars and vacuum cleaners to fill the void.
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