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Non affordable housing and day care are part of the problem. Delaying childbirth and not realizing that this delay may lead to fertility problems is also an is

Non affordable housing and day care are part of the problem. Delaying childbirth and not realizing that this delay may lead to fertility problems is also an issue. But there does appear to also be rising infertility as well at the same time and lots of chemicals that disrupt hormones (the latest target for legislation is PFAS/forever chemicals) and dropping sex hormone levels. I am not saying that things are not multi factor but that to dismiss hormones going weird as just nothing to worry about is not correct.

Aeolun 4y ago
I think I agree with the author that for average joe, there is nothing to be gained by worrying about it. The phenomenon is worrisome, but qualified people are already working on it, and will likely succeed in halting or reversing the decline. If they can’t… well, we’re probably fucked regardless of what joe does, so again, no point in worrying.
- bhouston 4y ago
  This can be said about global warming back in the 1990s. Experts are working on it and it isn’t really an issue for the average joe so don’t worry about it. You are not wrong that it isn’t a near term concern but I witnessed the lack of progress on global warming in the 1980s and 1990s and do not completely trust experts to make progress by themselves without a larger awareness at the societal level that there is an issue. In many ways the problem isn’t experts but at some point you need politicians involved and they only really react when the voters care. And thus you need the average joe to care so that polticians care and act. I think that this is the global warming-like issue of the next 3 decades. The author of this piece basically concluding that there was no issue. She didn’t conclude that it wasn’t a concern for the average joe but that there wasn’t an issue. That is wrong.
  - ajsnigrutin 4y ago
    There was just a story on HN (now dead) about 400 private jets flying the politicians and other rich people down to the climate change conference in egypt (COP27). It would be a lot easier to make people care, if the people speaking the loudest about climate change would actually behave in the way they want 'others' to behave.
    - ChoGGi 4y ago
      Worse than COP26 (118 jets) https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-private-jets-take-leaders-to-cop26-climate-summit-burning-over-1000-tons-of-co2/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-...
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- yucky 4y ago
  qualified people are already working on it And many (most?) of them see declining population as a net benefit for the earths' climate change issues. So at best, they have conflicting motivations.

Aeolun 4y ago

I think I agree with the author that for average joe, there is nothing to be gained by worrying about it. The phenomenon is worrisome, but qualified people are already working on it, and will likely succeed in halting or reversing the decline. If they can’t… well, we’re probably fucked regardless of what joe does, so again, no point in worrying.

bhouston 4y ago
This can be said about global warming back in the 1990s. Experts are working on it and it isn’t really an issue for the average joe so don’t worry about it. You are not wrong that it isn’t a near term concern but I witnessed the lack of progress on global warming in the 1980s and 1990s and do not completely trust experts to make progress by themselves without a larger awareness at the societal level that there is an issue. In many ways the problem isn’t experts but at some point you need politicians involved and they only really react when the voters care. And thus you need the average joe to care so that polticians care and act. I think that this is the global warming-like issue of the next 3 decades. The author of this piece basically concluding that there was no issue. She didn’t conclude that it wasn’t a concern for the average joe but that there wasn’t an issue. That is wrong.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago
  There was just a story on HN (now dead) about 400 private jets flying the politicians and other rich people down to the climate change conference in egypt (COP27). It would be a lot easier to make people care, if the people speaking the loudest about climate change would actually behave in the way they want 'others' to behave.
  - ChoGGi 4y ago
    Worse than COP26 (118 jets) https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-private-jets-take-leaders-to-cop26-climate-summit-burning-over-1000-tons-of-co2/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/11/05/118-...
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yucky 4y ago
qualified people are already working on it And many (most?) of them see declining population as a net benefit for the earths' climate change issues. So at best, they have conflicting motivations.