this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
65 points (94.5% liked)

World News

32363 readers
286 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
jackmarxist@lemmy.ml
zephyreks@lemmy.ml
OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
65
The global fertility crisis: are fewer babies a good or a bad thing? Experts are divided (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by arrakark@10291998.xyz to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It's interesting how different countries are dealing and are effected by the declining worldwide birth rates. The most astounding statistic to me is that wildlife populations have dropped +70% over the past 50 years. Frankly, if humans think that we are in the right to drop wildlife populations by such a staggering amount, a slight drop in human populations only seems like a fair way to balance the scales.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's good. And the decision to have (or not have) kids is one of the few forms of power that the general population has over those in charge. If people are being squeezed out financially or have no hope for the future (e.g. environmental collapse), they may choose to opt out of reproduction.

[โ€“] sibachian@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

It probably doesn't hold up. The idea of overpopulation is wrong because the west is suffering a birth crisis while the third world is having a child boom. It's not that more children are being born, it's that their standards are being improved so more of them survive. They in turn will level out and see less children born the better their standards become; so it's reasonable to assume if standards are collapsing in the west, then in a generation or so, more children will be born.