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http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/11/overcrowding-nah-the-worlds-populat…
Interesting...I know there was some discussion in other threads about overcrowding and not enough resources on the planet to feed/house everyone...I saw this article today and figured I'd share it..(It's a little old)
"But it turns out the world’s population isn’t growing nearly as fast as it once did. In fact, experts say the rate of population growth will continue to slow and that the total population will eventually — likely within our lifetimes — fall."
"This isn’t news for two of the world’s most populous countries, Japan and Russia, which as TIME reported in 2011 are both facing rapidly declining birthrates. In general, developed countries where more women have the means for financial independence and motherhood isn’t a given are facing much slower rates of population growth. Many Western European countries have birthrates below the population-replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman: Spain and Italy are tied at 1.4; Holland and Belgium, 1.8; and Germany is at 1.36."
Interesting...I know there was some discussion in other threads about overcrowding and not enough resources on the planet to feed/house everyone...I saw this article today and figured I'd share it..(It's a little old)
"But it turns out the world’s population isn’t growing nearly as fast as it once did. In fact, experts say the rate of population growth will continue to slow and that the total population will eventually — likely within our lifetimes — fall."
"This isn’t news for two of the world’s most populous countries, Japan and Russia, which as TIME reported in 2011 are both facing rapidly declining birthrates. In general, developed countries where more women have the means for financial independence and motherhood isn’t a given are facing much slower rates of population growth. Many Western European countries have birthrates below the population-replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman: Spain and Italy are tied at 1.4; Holland and Belgium, 1.8; and Germany is at 1.36."
And looking into this further...it looks like world population will peak at about 9.5 Billion...then start declining...somewhere around 2050. So we've got a long ways to go (up) before it starts coming down.
America's birthrate is 1.84...population still growing.
Are there a lot of people immigrating to China?
Ultimately looking at our age demographics we need a level of immigration to sustain an ageing population. To bad they aren't building the infrastructure and resources to cater for the population.
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from wiki
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There has to be a number where even all the GMO's and water purification simply cant keep up.
It'd be nice if the whole world went to a 1 child per family system until we got things back under 500 million total world population but that goes against everything we're wired to do so it's a really tall order. Fighting human nature is sorta pissing in the wind.
It's gonna take some sort of natural disaster to violently correct things.
I'd say it could be our diets are making for less healthy people and thus less healthy sperm/etc. But most of the world doesnt eat as unhealthy as America so that theory should only apply to us, not worldwide.
Is it because having a child in a developed country is so cost prohibitive? I honestly dont see people putting that much thought into it. But I could be wrong.
Is nature somehow correcting itself? Is the gene pool too thinned out?
Come 2025 or so, the Boomers will start to really thin out and Generations Y and Z will likely not have enough kids to replace them. When that happens, populations will top out and then start to go down. Immigration isn't a cure-all. Paying fair wages for fair work and women losing their hypergamy instinct would fix the problem. Not gonna happen!
Many Boomers will have more kids than grandchildren. This has probably never happened before.
We had a baby boom after WWII. We will have a death boom 70 years later.
That said, I'd rather work an enjoyable job and moto down than raise a family. And dealing with Gen. Y women over 28 (whose eggs are running out and in a full-court press to find a "high-earner" before it is too late) is about as much fun as racing 450s on a 125. And I'm no Johnnie O or Lammy!
Pit Row
The government subsidizes reproduction through tax deductions, food stamps, and public education, so people of limited means are enabled to have more kids than they can afford. And of course the intelligent and hard-working people have to shell out a ton of cash to fund these programs, reducing their ability to find a mate and breed.
Also, women have done better in the workforce but still demand a male with more resources to mate with due to hypergamy. But of course there aren't enough single high-earning men available for them, especially after they turn 30.
Let the good times roll!
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