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If we are lucky a good solution to this problem could be significant increase in life expectancy and development of artificial womb that will allow people to ha
by chr1 8y ago
If we are lucky a good solution to this problem could be significant increase in life expectancy and development of artificial womb that will allow people to have children later in life when they finally want to have children.
But if the technological solution doesn't come soon enough the world will have to go through a much harder transition, trying to develop new culture that would combine aspects of secular societies that allow development of science and commerce, with a reasonable desire of growth.
- irrational 8y agoIsn’t a future secular society unlikely when the people that are having large numbers of children are highly religious? It would seem that as the secular world keeps having fewer children that eventually the vast majority of people will be highly religious.
- chr1 8y agoReligiousness is not genetic, many children from highly religious families become atheists or are moderately religious people who can bend or ignore religious rules when needed.
- irrational 8y agoTrue, but I know highly religious families that are having up to 13 children. If even 50% of those kids stay religious they are out birthing probably 3-4 secular families (who tend to have 0-2 children). And, of course, it also goes the other way, sometimes children of secular families become religious.