Everybody thought the lockdown would cause a boom of birth and it did not. China's one child policy has created a huge generation of men who will quite definitely never marry and are most likely to rarely have sex with a woman. The global population is projected to peak at around the 2070s at around 9.6 billiion and will plummet quite reliably by the millions for the rest of the century.
This contrasts a little with what I was taught in school in the 90s. OVERpopulation was a fear. I remember my (catholic midwestern) parents told me I couldn't watch Captain Planet! anymore because one of the episodes advocated having less babies.
Another article I read talked about how the little villages in Europe are dissipating and being subsumed by nature; the woods and wolves. Because all the old people want to move closer to their kids in the city/a hospital, it's less practical to live afield.
We won't see significant decline in our lifetimes. The upwards trend was over-exaggerated but the downward might be as well. I'm sure we all know women having babies but have you noticed a reluctance to procreate? What do you think drives this trend? Is it alarmist? How are women's choices and men's different in this situation. I feel a lot of this is women's decisions.
Everybody thought the lockdown would cause a boom of birth and it did not. China's one child policy has created a huge generation of men who will quite definitely never marry and are most likely to rarely have sex with a woman. The global population is projected to peak at around the 2070s at around 9.6 billiion and will plummet quite reliably by the millions for the rest of the century.
This contrasts a little with what I was taught in school in the 90s. OVERpopulation was a fear. I remember my (catholic midwestern) parents told me I couldn't watch Captain Planet! anymore because one of the episodes advocated having less babies.
Another article I read talked about how the little villages in Europe are dissipating and being subsumed by nature; the woods and wolves. Because all the old people want to move closer to their kids in the city/a hospital, it's less practical to live afield.
We won't see significant decline in our lifetimes. The upwards trend was over-exaggerated but the downward might be as well. I'm sure we all know women having babies but have you noticed a reluctance to procreate? What do you think drives this trend? Is it alarmist? How are women's choices and men's different in this situation. I feel a lot of this is women's decisions.
Currently, we're at 7.8 Billion people. Make that what you will!
@anonymoushermit It's gonna be 9 bil! Where are they! What shall they do?! Amazon warehouse workers. Almond farmers? It's when white people are not having babies that they call it a "crisis". The whole pop of Yemen gone by the end of this year! Ask anyone you know if they even know where Yemen is.
The upwards trend was over-exaggerated but the downward might be as well.
Your Virgo is showing! ?
Oh man I couldn't even include all the links I wanted to bc my Pisces lost them!
Everybody thought the lockdown would cause a boom of birth and it did not.
Thanks for sharing this. It's interesting and so is you're entire post. I'm at a loss for words but I'm going to think about this today. Thank you.
@elsaI thought about you when I read that article. I think about that story of when you were a bartender and one of your old Capricorn regulars told you that what you really needed was to be a mother. I know you love being a mother and you love also trends. This is such a deep and fascinating issue. There was another one about how tiny (and even decent sized) villages in Europe are being taken back by nature and the wolves because all the old people don't want to be up in the mountains 60 miles from a hospital.
Let’s not forget the decreasing male fertility in the western world. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world/
I didn’t expect the sperm pic to show up on the link. I wonder if Google would find it offensive.
There is a book out there, it's old now - 10 years? "What To Expect When No One Is Expecting".
I read the book and wrote about it but I can't find the post.
I agree, women are making the decision. I believe they've been managed / socialized to feel this way but let be clear...
I think my generation has been socialized / managed to the same degree. It's so weird...
Nearly 20 years ago I discussed how I created my personality from a series of songs. I actually wrote about this as well. So I had awareness of this. I was aware of it when I was 19 years old.
But now I see, it's true for everyone. We are shown things and hear things and we're insanely influenced by it. Media can create or get rid of a shortage, no problem at all.
This includes a shortage of human beings.