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My biggest concern is the direct correlation to the reproductive rates and lower education in virtually every culture. More than specific concerns about particu
by Natales 10y ago
My biggest concern is the direct correlation to the reproductive rates and lower education in virtually every culture. More than specific concerns about particular religions or ethnic origins, I fear for a world where the uneducated rules.
- toasterlovin 10y agoThen you should have lots of kids! And encourage your intelligent friends to do the same.
- ginko 10y agoWell, it's not as if you can just choose to have kids.
- toasterlovin 10y agoTrue in the technical sense that a person cannot just unilaterally decide to have children RIGHT NOW. But most people, over the course of their life, have the opportunity to have children. In the developed world, a huge portion of these people decide to have 0 or 1 child.
- sdfin 10y agoHa, that's the starting premise of Idiocracy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
- Snargorf 10y agoIt's not in every culture, it's between cultures as well. Africa adds 30 millions people every year. Pretty much everywhere outside of Africa is below replacement fertility. In the 20th century, Africans were 10-15% of the world population; by the end of the 21st the could be >50%.
- int_19h 10y agoThe same problem was posited for China. Yet, as their quality of life improved, the problem had, essentially, resolved itself. Similar trends have been observed elsewhere. There's no reason to believe that Africa will be an exception from that rule.
- lmz 10y agoForgetting the One Child Policy, are we?
- int_19h 10y agoYou mean, the one that they have terminated last year because they now have an aging population problem? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons-one-child-policy https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons...
- lmz 10y agoYou claimed: > The same problem was posited for China. Yet, as their quality of life improved, the problem had, essentially, resolved itself. It does not make sense to say the problem "resolved itself" when there was a 35 year period where the One Child Policy was in effect.
- int_19h 10y agoOCP did not resolve the problem, per se. OCP bought them more time to allow the (delayed) effects of the increased standard of living to manifest themselves fully. They didn't really _need_ OCP - they would have ended up in the same place either way, OCP just made it a bit shorter, and reduced the strain on economy (and hence decrease in the standard of living) on the way there.
- Snargorf 10y agoThere are reasons. China has a long history of advanced (for the time) civilization and a high-IQ population (~105). They were backward for just a few centuries because of a series of bad ideologies - isolationism, followed by communism. For most of history China was the highest-tech civilization on Earth. All they had to do to achieve demographic transition was get back to their historical norm. Africa has no history of advanced civilization and a low-IQ population (~75). There's reason to think they'll sustain higher birthrates than everyone else, indefinitely. To achieve demographic transition they'll have to do something they've never done before.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 10y agoConsider that many countries have made the transition from high birth rates and low literacy to the opposite. There's no reason to think the remaining ones will never change.