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As well written and funny as the article is it still finds itself in a tunnel vision scenario because if the population is rising continuously and no one wants
by 32gbsd 4y ago
As well written and funny as the article is it still finds itself in a tunnel vision scenario because if the population is rising continuously and no one wants to have kids anymore then where are all these extra kids coming from?
- derwiki 4y agoAs Yogi Berra said, “Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”
- melenaboija 4y agoBecause usually population means US and sometimes you can include Europe.
- aew4ytasghe5 4y agoArbsorlurtlrey.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoPopulation growth is both more kids being born, and people living longer. We're now in the people living longer stage. Hans Rosling did a simple demonstration of this with boxes over a decade ago. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_growth_box_by_box?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_gro... edit: better illustration of the point, still Hans with Boxes here: https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?t=203 https://youtu.be/2LyzBoHo5EI?t=203
- midnitewarrior 4y agoThe developing world. Lack of birth control + poverty + lower cost of raising children has our population exploding in all the places that haven't developed yet.
- nix23 4y agoYou forgot the most important point, security when your old, if you have 10 children's the "burden" to provide money/time to the parents is smaller per child. If the state is not providing "insurance" the family has to.
- safog 4y agoChina and India both have declining fertility rates as well. It seems like fertility is incompatible with economic development.
- pizza234 4y agoIt depends on the culture, I guess - AFAIK the birth rate in western countries is decreasing. On the other hand, the taxi drivers I remember talking to about children, had all a certain (non-western) background, and they had (as far as I remember) 2, 4, 3, 8 children, respectively.
- lozenge 4y agoThere aren't just extra kids, there's extra old people.
- jlokier 4y agoAside from the apt Yogi Berra reference, a lot of kids are made by "accident" by people who didn't "want" to but accept their fate when it's "happened". Oopsie!