Comment by em-bee
3 days ago
having kids is no longer an imperative for humans living in the 21st century
on the contrary. global population growth will plateau in a few decades, and negative population growth is already a problem in many countries, like all western countries, south korea, and also china.
Stop looking it country by country. Globally, the trend is that of an increasing population. And fast. Humans are reproducing at unsustainable level.
The number is still rising but the growth rate is plummeting.
https://assets.ourworldindata.org/uploads/2016/03/ourworldin...
It’s a trend and it’s slowing down not plummeting. And even if it is, there are already more of us than we know how to sustain.
The problem at hand is not growth rate slowing down, it’s humans divided in tiny pockets of countries burning through what little we have left of natural resources.
People who have kids today, do so knowing that their children will most certainly be displaced by natural disasters.
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here is a more current graph that predicts the growth rate to become negative in the 2080s:
https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=900&type=Probabilis...