Not Enough Babies?

[Torvy]

Net world population growth recently fell below replacement rate.

Too few children will cause as many problems as too many.

 

[kenmbz]

We are up to over 8 billion people.

In 1970 we had half of that.

This doubling has caused untold starvation and damage to water supplies and led to deforestation for farming in Asia and South America.

We are already getting closer to Soylent green.

While net change is lower this year, it's only since 2019 that net change is below 1%. So only a few years of downward change, which includes the Pandemic years.

World Population by Year - Worldometer

Population growth through history from 5000 BC to the current year (2024) for the entire population of the world

www.worldometers.info

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Maybe the MRNA vaccines will help to reduce the population to a more acceptable level.

 

[masscity]

I thought the anti vaxxers did a good job of lowering the population.

 

[tractortroof]

I guess the wife and I lived in the golden ages. Kids were more valuable than gold, and we never even thought of how much they might "cost" .
We made a deal to our family that one of us would stay home and care for the young ones.

It worked, but I'm a miser, and my wife is frugal.

The kids did not go wanting...

;-)

Same here only I go through it now. We just had our 11th and I don’t understand the people who talk about can’t afford them, especially when they talk about faith in the same sentence. Wife obviously had to stay at home she has a job there that is huge. God will provide. Population too much? No there are vast areas of land unpopulated even in India.

We are done having them naturally but I could see adopting maybe 9 more if we are stable enough.

 

[Hay Dude]

Same here only I go through it now. We just had our 11th and I don’t understand the people who talk about can’t afford them, especially when they talk about faith in the same sentence. Wife obviously had to stay at home she has a job there that is huge. God will provide. Population too much? No there are vast areas of land unpopulated even in India.

We are done having them naturally but I could see adopting maybe 9 more if we are stable enough.

Thats a beautiful thing you got going tractortroof.
“God will provide” if we just believe and have faith.
IMO, it is the strong faith and families, particularly from the south and midwest that will pull this country through and lead us through this mess.
Strong families of Faith will be an example for the lost, Godless America haters and they will eventually turn back to God.
That is my prayer.

 

[drssg]

This guy is doing his part.

The Sperminator welcomes 165th child just before Father’s Day — and makes shocking announcement

The six-foot-two prolific Kingsborough Community College math professor is celebrating his latest baby, who was birthed by a woman in Connecticut.

nypost.com

 

[Norm W]

As a math teacher, he is definitely good at multiplying.

 

[dstig1]

I hadn't read through this until now. Plenty of thread drift of course but the original topic is getting more attention, these days. The scare mongers like the Population Bomb are just that. Not reality. Projections now are showing the world population peaking and then starting to decline by around 2050 or so (I forget the exact timing but it was still this century, not terribly far away). I saw some projections that had the future population lower than it is today. Technology keeps increasing so we get better and better at being able to feed and fuel the growth we have seen which is why we didn't all starve in the 70's after the Pop Bomb book came out and told us we were "all gunna die!!!"

The fundamental is that as a country gets richer, fertility rates drop. Many of the more advanced countries now are below (some, WELL below) the replacement rate of about 2.1 babies per child-bearing age woman. When that happens, your population is going to decrease. The only other lever that can change that is immigration and many countries are not very immigrant friendly (Japan, S Korea are 2 places in this pickle currently and neither is very immigrant friendly, for example). Immigration (legal or not) is the only thing keeping the US pop growing at this point.

Even though China is a mix of third world and first world now, they have already shot themselves in the foot with their one baby policy that ended up creating an imbalance between the sexes as there is a cultural preference for boys so selective abortion reduced the normal percent of females born. Now there are too few females and they don't seem to want to settle down and have kids. Absent a major cultural shift, they are hosed and will see a massive imbalance of too many old people and very few young ones that is going to cause major societal issues.

The current US problem is of course the boomers being old and fewer young workers to cover for them. What will be interesting to me is once the boomers expire, then the demographic spread will be much more evened out, I believe, and this could have a good impact on the sustainability of our society.

Time will tell how good these projections are...

 

[deserteagle71]

Projections now are showing the world population peaking and then starting to decline by around 2050 or so (I forget the exact timing but it was still this century, not terribly far away). I saw some projections that had the future population lower than it is today.

I think whoever did those "projections" needs to look at what is happening in the 3rd world countries because obviously they didn't take them into account. That is where all the population growth is happening. Again, in the past 50 years the population of planet earth has DOUBLED. I don't think earth will survive another doubling. Global warming? All these added people will be contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, and using up resources that are getting scarcer. Here's a graph of world population for the last 1000 years...look at what happened in the last 100 years!