As a woman, you couldn’t PAY ME to have a baby, you NEVER could. You know that shit in A Handmaid’s Tale where they send the women who are too old to have kids out to work the fields until they die? Sign me up, because I’d rather be dead than bring a child into this world that has gotten only more and more fucked up as I’ve been alive. I always say, I love *my *children so much that I refuse to give them life on Earth.
I love *my *children so much that I refuse to give them life on Earth.
Yes! You can’t pay me enough to bring my children here to suffer. If I’m not willing to be part of anyone’s war, why should I subject my descendants to do that? We all know how this IRL “civilization” game is played. And it’s anything but civilized.
Many researchers believe this accelerating global shift is being driven in large part by a positive reality. Young couples, and women in particular, have far more freedom and economic independence. They’re weighing their options and appear to be making very different choices about the role of children in their lives.
Lol the wolves are upset the sheep aren’t breeding enough.
Low birth rates are only problematic to carcinogenic ideologies.
Less babies less pollution I see no problem with this lol, of course stupid people have more kids but as long as education is still funded stupid people will have smarter kids which will vote out stupid peoples politicians
For decades, we’ve been fed this narrative that overpopulation is eventually going to destroy the world. But, now that birthrates are declining…a shrinking population is suddenly the problem.
we’ve been fed this narrative that overpopulation is eventually going to destroy the world
It’s always been wrong, and some of us have been arguing against that kind of neo-Mathusian worldview this entire time.
Note that the same view also leads to the incorrect conclusion that population shrinkage will be good for resource management, pollution, etc. If one believes that a large and growing population will deplete the world’s resources and destroy the environment, one might conclude that a shrinking population will help conserve the world’s resources and preserve the environment.
But look at how things actually play out. The countries with the shrinking populations are still increasing their resource consumption, and the slowdown in population growth hasn’t slowed down resource depletion in large part because humans don’t all use the same amount of resources. If the population of India shrinks to the size of the population of the United States, but then increases its greenhouse emissions to match that of the United States, that would be bad for the environment despite the population reduction.
A shrinking population isn’t really a problem in itself, but an aging population is. That’s the concern about birth rates, is the worry that unproductive old people will have their lives cut short rather than enjoying a reasonable retirement.
I get this, but we can’t have an infinitely expanding population, at some point it will have to stabilize, and there has to be the glut of old people at the beginning of that. People are aging more slowly than in the past, at least, even if living longer more of those years are good and can be productive.
I don’t think it’s an insurmountable challenge. Just that the ratio is what matters, which means abrupt changes to birth rates might be more problematic than the magnitude of the change over time.
But I also don’t think that a stable population size solves the climate crisis or resource depletion. It might be the case that 8 billion people in 2075 end up consuming way more energy and natural resources in an even less sustainable way than the 8 billion people of 2025.
Only a problem for oligarchs.
Ancedotal: I wanted 3 kids. I have none. I’d like to think I’d produce a better than average member of society. While I have more money than many Americans, I don’t feel like I have job security, financial security, and I see my country in a decline, where quality of life is lower than it was during my childhood, and my parents lifetime.
That’s the thing… They don’t want you to produce a better than average member of society. Better than average members are less likely to accept low wages in crap jobs without complaining. There are only a handful of good paying jobs in the future and those are for nepo-babies. Merit no longer matters.
This just in: Women are aware of what’s going on.
Yay!
Fewer people in the world is the thing I want the most of all.
Honestly I always have felt this way. No one asked to be born, and we would all be better off with fewer people (once the olds are gone).
Well, just wait until the likes of Bannon and Stephen Miller have Taco create the American Lebensborn.
oh no! the economy!
