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I do think he has a point though. Wherever people are wealthy enough to spend money on vacations and other activities, they seem to value leisure time over repr
by iSnow 11y ago
I do think he has a point though. Wherever people are wealthy enough to spend money on vacations and other activities, they seem to value leisure time over reproduction.
Currently, the world population is still growing, but that's mostly due to poorer countries and sub-populations. AFAIK, not even the US's whites are enough to sustain the population size:
"Expected lifetime births have also fallen for White non-Hispanic women from 1.91 in 2007 to 1.75 in 2013. U.S. White non-Hispanic births have been below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman for decades." (http://www.unomaha.edu/news/2015/01/fertility.php http://www.unomaha.edu/news/2015/01/fertility.php).
It is even worse in Europe and Russia.
- onnoonno 11y ago> It is even worse in Europe and Russia. Maybe it is a question of a middle ground? I see a slowly declining population as being positive for humanity. I think 1e9 children having a materially secure future is much better than 1e11 children fighting wars for the last scraps of resources. Also if those children are not mine.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBut the result is an erasure of the first world. Leaving the huddled masses in Africa as inheiritors of an exhausted earth?