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Mankind does not seem to be at risk from falling birth rates. If you can think of a plausible such scenario I'd like to hear it. Sure, certain cultures are at r
by hirundo 3y ago
Mankind does not seem to be at risk from falling birth rates. If you can think of a plausible such scenario I'd like to hear it. Sure, certain cultures are at risk. But anti-natalists tend to edit themselves out of cultures, leaving the more fecund natalists to spawn the future. Raising families, breeders are disproportionate sources of both future memes and genes relative to non-breeders. The more effective anti-natalists are, the greater the rebound from their resulting self-elimination.
- LoganWhitwer 3y ago[dead]
- arvinsim 3y agoIndeed, the future belongs to those who show up.
- jmopp 3y agoI have heard the argument that as Africa continues to develop, birth rates will fall in Africa the same way that they fell in east Asia - leaving no large regions in the world with growing populations, and thus no pool of immigrants that highly industrialised countries can pull from - leading to highly industrialised countries collapsing and whatever existential risk comes from that. I personally don't buy it, as trends don't continue forever. Birth rates will never fall to zero, and we'd likely come up with a solution to the dependency ratio problem before the least-developed country in the world industrialises