Population Aging: Are America and the World Approaching an Inflection Point?

[@9TheDream6]

Turn homemaking into the paid and recognized job it deserves to be. No time for reproduction when you need to awake at 5am get ready work 8am -6pm commute come home cook clean dishes, clean appliances counters ,tables, care for pets, clean Floors, bathrooms, do laundry etc let alone do this while pregnant and/or caring for a child. None of my peers have children and we are almost 30 or over 30. We as women are modern day slaves. Not to mention the increased maternal age, stresses on the women, hormonal imbalances to compensate for stressful lives will also result in a less healthy population as egg quality decreases for whatever manages to be ovulated. And if a woman isn’t cooking and eating terribly processed foods that will also result in compromised children at higher rates which means there are currently generations that were not born, and unhealthy children that will only produce even worse off children if they manage to reproduce at all, and very few liable people to keep things going

[@khurramhasan7036]

We have only 126 years before there are no more humans on Earth. Take you pick

[@MichaelWolfe1000]

I look at it this way... if the productivity fossil fuel has brought and being 100 times more productive than 100 years ago... How come we're not getting any of it?!

[@SC-sh6ux]

People want more children than they end up having. How can we help people have more children?

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

The wolves are afraid when the sheep do not reproduce

[@jeffreycheng5984]

"You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet."- Dane Wigington.

[@9TheDream6]

Except that we only inhabit one planet and are constantly at risk for extinction. We also have a planet mostly covered by oceans that we could be inhabiting which would be beneficial if there were any great floods again or meteors etc so no we need to keep reproducing and innovating to farm under water and learning to live in space, turn other planets into habitable ones, find habitable ones, etc. can’t do that with population reduction. Humanity will implode on itself just as every great society did if there is not population growth. Look at what is happening in Japan now. You say we have a finite planet but we have an infinite universe. Think larger

[@MichaelWolfe1000]

@@9TheDream6 nice try, but there is the concept of ecological footprint and ecological overshoot. You stand not only on the square foot you feet occupy, there are acres producing the food you need, the clothes you wear and so on.

[@MichaelWolfe1000]

I like that they did not get all worked up. The aging problems are real, but like they hinted towards the end... so what if the population is 10% less.... in my viepoint the ecological factor is of the most upmost importance... if we are in ecological overshoot of 70% of what the earth can sustainably mantain, then we consume too much, resources including fossil fuels on the decline, with all this economic growth will not be possible and we are too many...so in my view it is a blessing in disguise so to speak when I hear about lower birth rates. The world got along fine with 2 billion for thousands of years, but this time around...in probably less than a 100 years we'll hopfully be wiser and still enjoy life without a growing economy!

[@j.s.c.4355]

Amusing way to look optimistically at the USA: “We give people the opportunity to keep working until they die.”

[@harmonizedigital.]

great talk. Some great insights.