Demographer WARNS of 'HUGE global' population crisis - 'this is why we've had mass migration!'

'The reason we've had mass immigration is because we've had too few children for the last 50 years'
Paul Morland says the secret to solving labour shortages over the long term while cutting immigration is to increase the number of children being born.
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[@beefy0978]

Industry is not crying out for more labour. Its crying out for more “cheap” labour to exploit…

[@chrishart8548]

Why should we make kids just for them to be slaves of the system we ourselves suffered.

[@incurableromantic4006]

Exactly - they are addicted to cheap immigrant labour and couldn't care less what the consequences for the rest of us are.

[@amialal4510]

@beefy0987 What 'labour'? Food delivers, soccer players and moslims...you're out of your mind.

[@Soulsalivation]

That's all Windrush ever was. The first shipment of 'self shackled wage slaves'. To replace the millions of British who died fighting two World Wars.

[@chriswatson1698]

@@Soulsalivation The people on the Empire Windrush were chancers. They were not invited by the government. Boat people.

[@RickGhastly-ty8cq]

Even if we halted migration right now, the damage has already been done

[@iant9461]

Damage can be repaired.

[@Aspartame69]

@@iant9461 By who? The new brits have no track record of repairing or sustaining any type of modern civilisation.

[@MrHellelement]

If the native populations can keep the majority then maybe just maybe there is a chance. The fate of western civilization stands on a knife's edge.

[@annmorgan5130]

I totally agree. I dread what will happen to the population of our country once the illegals start bringing their women with them.

[@Soulsalivation]

@@iant9461 “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a sandaled foot stamping on a human face-for ever.” ― Paraphrased from George Orwell, 1984

[@ellismeah8110]

Bill Gates talked about depopulation, while British workers work long hours for less and less income to keep 1,000s of migrants living in Hotels in England , vote for Reform UK for a better British future

[@graydenhibbs]

If people are happy, they will have children.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Most can't afford kids

[@alexedwards6509]

Come on Britain, you know what to do. Let's face it, it isn't the worst task you will undertake Pretty much what you are doing now, without contraception

[@martynblackburn9632]

And a drunken man is a happy man...

[@Jack-fs2im]

@@SubjectiveFunnyreform want to lift the child benefit cap

[@SubjectiveFunny]

@@andromeda_25 Thats on you, stop blaming society. Its not up to the government to promote the idea of having children, what the hell are you even saying? Absolutely ridiculous.. .

[@sitbestill8480]

It's not labour they want, it's consumers.

[@songscoops4205]

Don't worry about it.....the elite will carry on regardless until it affects them...😂😂

[@martinjameslewis5702]

mass migration low wages

[@Happy-go-luckyno]

Supply and demand... we're seeing it now

[@bobbymozza]

More renters and a housing shortage, to inflate house prices.

[@sweden_is_xxxx]

Yes. The financial elite wants cheap labour so they promote migration.

[@skylinefever]

Everything to make the rich richer. The people who can afford to buy the major parties are an unelected oligarchy.

[@basicfilmblog]

It also means people at the moment get to retire.

[@stevenicol1]

Less people sounds wonderful.

[@barneymagee3285]

Less Anglo people , avalanche of afric and Arab people…

[@1aatlas]

yea but the ponzi scheme that is our financial system requires infinite growth to sustain itself...

[@bigtony4829]

Absolutely ..UK is over crowded a fifty million population would be bliss

[@charlytaylor1748]

It does. We should gear up for It.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

unfortunately it means only Less Europeans ...more of the other variety. .!

[@MarmaLloyd]

Id rather a beautiful, safe country with small businesses than destroying it to appease multinational demands

[@MagnanimousEntropy]

Well said.

[@josephcolacova7516]

There was a simple solution; incentivize native British people have produce more children. The same funds that were wasted on immigration should have been diverted to native Brit’s.

[@christopherlord3441]

How is that a simple solution? Many governments have tried to find policies that do that and you can have policies that encourage people who already want children to take the plunge - for example here in France, where there are child allowances, daycare for working mothers, free education, etc. But once you have a society where people think expensive holidays, new cars and so on are more important than having children there is nothing you can do. One policy that does work is giving council flats to teenage single mothers. Maybe that's the answer.

[@douglasmurphy3794]

@@christopherlord3441 well had govenment and media not spent years convincing women men where evil and " the patriarchy" and spent last few years castratin our kids preventin them having kids later on in life it would be pretty simple

[@chriswatson1698]

Governments cannot compete with childlessness for enhancing living standards. And what happens to the mothers, who lose their earning capacity, absorbing the inconvenience of child care, when their husbands abandon them for younger, richer, childless women.

[@Malayalikada]

​@@christopherlord3441single mothers ?

[@christopherlord3441]

@@Malayalikada The United Kingdom has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe. One common reason is that girls at the bottom of society have been brought up in social housing, called council houses in the UK, and are desperate to escape from their families - often in fact single mothers, perhaps with several children by different men. So the simplest method is to become pregnant without being in a couple. This will entitle them to a free flat of their own. Then they can repeat the cycle.

[@mr.miller5041]

What a load of absolute twaddle... What are all these people going to do? There's continuously less and less need for manual labour. And it's quite clear to see that all of society is turning into a shit hole anyway.

[@aidjunkie5335]

And yet Australia has a population below 30 million but seems to do fine. Relax folks, you’re being gas lighted. The world’s population has almost doubled in my life time (I’m 62). We are being told we need more people in the West, despite less jobs, crumbling infrastructure and a scarcity of available accommodation. Don’t be played.

[@douglasmurphy3794]

change of demogrphic breaks soverign power thats what its really about,....

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Many Pacific countries have sunk and had to migrate to continents whose land was stolen by white people

[@kimmiewise1044]

Yeah I don't think a crumbling health care system and stagnating economy is "doing just fine" mate...

[@aidjunkie5335]

@@kimmiewise1044 Fair one 🐕

[@MrAndyblue52]

All planned years ago wake up

[@chrisfisher1100]

Exactly. They have been pushing fear of over population for over 50 years. Making people feel guilty. Simultaneously peoviding all manner of birth control.

[@sekovittol3124]

Feminism caused a lot of damage.

[@emiliefreakinbrown1812]

​@@sekovittol3124also certain hormone blockers in kids & 💉💉....all part of the grand plan

[@annmorgan5130]

Yes, but why?

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

1885 Berlin conference was the start . .. .

[@DezSmith-sl3pz]

It's what happens when you promote rainbows and a rainbow lifestyle

[@skylinefever]

China and Russia aren't gay friendly, yet they have super low birth rates.

[@MinkieWinkle]

Japan has no crime, no culture shift, no terror attacks. I side with Japan over importing the third world. Japan's larger older population will eventually move on. Then look were Japan will be. Well placed to have a thriving society. Small pain for long term gain

[@farallimacha]

Japan has changed their immigration policy years ago.

[@KatharinaK117]

Amen!!!

[@BarbaricBrit]

You seem to suggest here that the old people will go away. That will only happen if the birth rate improves. With a low birth rate, we end up with an inverted pyramid age demographic structure, which means more older people than young people.

[@KatharinaK117]

@@BarbaricBrit ah SHUTTAUP! Japan is just fine!

[@JohnnyRingo-c5v]

@@BarbaricBritbig that equalises itself out over time

[@Starmerispureevil]

The world needs less people. It’s already massively overpopulated. But we can’t mention which types of people are doing the irresponsible overbreeding.

[@1aatlas]

Youre wrong on so many levels. It's not massively overpopulated, and you mean poor people (unless youre implying race idk)... if we have to choose people to GO i choose people like you.

[@chriswatson1698]

@@1aatlas When water has to be expensively desalinated, and other species are in danger of extinction or are already extinct, then there are too many humans of the planet.

[@Please_allow_me]

​@@1aatlasIts over populated by people who offer and contribute nothing, and happily exploit those of us who do. That goes for both indigenous people and (illegal) immigrants alike.

[@1aatlas]

@@chriswatson1698 Go on then, you first.

[@incurableromantic4006]

Not western countries - it's the 3rd world that massively overpopulated.

[@warrenbooth2103]

Crying out for cheap labour!

[@chriswatson1698]

Cheap labour and more customers. Benefits those who are already wealthy.

[@GrimCellar]

Odd philosophy from this man when world population has literally doubled in a mere 50 years. Over here, yes maybe indigenous people don't reproduce enough but that doesn't warrant the mass scale immigration that has been forced upon us over the last 25 years, and again the population here is 10 or so million higher in just a couple of decades. We also have millions not working so there is your pool of resources if you stop making unemployment a better option.

[@chriswatson1698]

All those millions not working, yet when "experts" discuss future demography, they only talk about supporting retired people. They don't allow for the dependents who are just too young to be in the workforce or can't get into it.

[@stevecassy4868]

Also it has been decades since we last built a water reservoir ........despite our population increasing by millions as you so rightly state.

[@peterc.1618]

The jobs machines can't do, like care work for example, are so poorly paid that our unemployed refuse to take them. And don't forget that with most young people now getting (often useless) degrees, they expect to get graduate salaries and there simply aren't enough jobs that require a degree.

[@Trustno_1-k6f]

It will matter in 20 years. All these old bigots, will want our help

[@douglasmurphy3794]

@@chriswatson1698 thats cause they'll be retirin soon :P

[@MichaelPetek]

If we're up to our eyes in debt, how can we afford children?

[@peterbexon7549]

Exactly what the globalist cabal think, which is one reason they cause debt.

[@douglasmurphy3794]

we dont the new comers will though

[@Soulsalivation]

The problem is that the vast majority of the population growth is coming from countries least able to support them! And it's OUR TRILLIONS in AID that is enabling them to do it! NO AID WITHOUT BIRTH CONTROL!

[@bumberClart1000]

People will tell you, who wants to bring children into such a broken world?

[@petersmith5915]

Apparently 4.5 babies are born per second so some people clearly still want them, imo.

[@bumberClart1000]

@@petersmith5915 of course. It’s your choice. Great stuff 😆

[@BonusHole]

@@petersmith5915 By the same woman? Impressive...

[@sekovittol3124]

@@petersmith5915 Large families to people who live in poverty, yet, we complain of a broken world?! We think too much. They see kids as help in a poor country, we see them as an expense in developed countries. Then you got hedonism and feminism to finish us off.

[@kellykreqeli8924]

Unless you are paying to support you’re own kids you should not have them It’s irresponsible to tell people to have more kids When they can’t afford to support them and expect the tax payer to Why should my taxes pay for someone who choose to have kids but couldn’t afford to have them It’s about making the right choices in life who should any pay for people making the wrong choices?

[@davidb9835]

I have twins that are 4/5 and a 12 year old daughter, it's been costing our family £100 per day in child care costs all because of massive regulations that cost money to implement and those cost/costs get pushed onto the parents. Over regulation has a knock-on effect no matter the industry, and unfortunately, this so called Conservative government has done nothing to address the ridiculous amounts of regulations that choke everything in this country.

[@MinkieWinkle]

There was once a time that a stay at home patent in your street, that everyone was friends with could be given the children by all the workers for a few hours. Now that is not possible. All the red tape, gon are the days of child minders and baby sitters. It has gone put of control. No wonder child care is so expensive. They destroyed it

[@nihilistlivesmatter]

@Leidolfr You don't need red tape you need vigilant parents Whilst my mum worked my Aunt and/or grandmother looked after me..whilst my Aunt worked my mum took care of my cousin......no-one got bummed

[@Happy-go-luckyno]

Yeh I'm getting screwed for childcare 2nd one at nursery now ... and with ir35 it's to much

[@nihilistlivesmatter]

@Leidolfr That's where the 'vigilant' part come in

[@MinkieWinkle]

@Leidolfr no it was not, there Granted there was a few cases of neglect, i am not debating that, They were few, there used to be 4 child minders with in a 5 min walk of my house, all were good friends, all took care of the children very well. it allowed us all to work. while we collectively gave the minder payment for her trouble. she was happy to have an income not having to work her self, while we were able to go out and work. Now today, they want 10 pound an hour PER child. that is ridiculous, when in the past the minders would be happy just to have 50 a day paid collectively, she would have 4/ 6 children, a few bob each, job done.

[@BulletProofBrain]

Technology will replace millions of jobs in the next 20 years. This analysis is nonsense.

[@Paws4Thought669]

We are being replaced

[@chriswatson1698]

A shrinking population is a very good thing. Importing foreigners is not.

[@KatharinaK117]

Ever heard of the HOOTONAGENDA? They replace the name for it always too ... sickos! Let's see, if my comment will stand!

[@deadprivacy]

Priced out by people whose culture is just to breed like crazy regardless if consequence ,often with their own cousins.

[@KatharinaK117]

@@deadprivacy FAX FAX!

[@martynblackburn9632]

Fake news.

[@pinafarine]

Cannot afford having large families because people are too busy paying for their inflated mortgage!

[@77Xd2]

Politics won't save England now

[@stuartfitch7093]

I purposely chose never ti have any children. This was for two reasons. Number one is who would want a child here in the UK today? It has been ran into the ground by our incompetent governments. Everything is broken. Second reason is despite working full time since I've left the education system I simply cant afford to have a child. The costs of everything from the extra food to school uniform costs would bankrupt me.

[@gauloise6442]

I dont get it. In 1980 the US population was 221 million and in 2024 it is 340 million. How are people not having children to replace the population. Just think that is over 100 million more people competing for jobs, homes, no wonder it is so much more difficult for us than for our parents.

[@Joshua-eo5hr]

You need to look at fertility rates not over all population to get the trajectory of what's going on.

[@bigfluff73]

how are people supposed to have families if they're unable to afford housing?

[@stuartfitch7093]

He's contradicted himself by acknowledging there's a housing shortage but then saying we need more people because we aren't having any. It's obvious that if we are to catch up with housing demand here in the UK then we need to have net zero migration for a considerable number of years. We can't keep up with current demand which is to build one new house every two minutes to keep up with the population growth with such large influxes of people coming here. It's a vicious circle. Because there's often no hope for young people born here to buy their own home, then they can't or choose not to have children themselves. I heard a stat yesterday of something like 30% of all people in their 30s still live at home with mum and dad because they can't afford to buy or rent a place of their own. How are they supposed to have children when they can't even afford to put a roof over their own heads?

[@aion5837]

That guy needs to talk to people in the field of advanced technology. The inevitable future is mass permanent unemployment. It's already happening and will only accelerate. The times of needing a large manual work-force is over, just as the professions will be taken over by AI. Why see a doctor, when the human body can be scanned at sub-cell level, that can identify diseases years before they become apparent, with 100% accuracy. Treatment will be offered using the same technology.

[@El.Cid17]

Well we won't have any job's once AI takes over.

[@martynblackburn9632]

Anti-AI fear mongering.

[@wildsurfer12]

So why is our immigration rate still so high then?

[@JohnnyRingo-c5v]

I see nothing wrong a lower population

[@bigtony4829]

Better for the planet ..bad for oligarchs and fat cats apparently

[@annmorgan5130]

I agree. A big country such as Finland has a very low population, which is what we as a tiny country should have

[@douglasmurphy3794]

lower population just means easier to control and brainwash so keep pushin the billionaire corporate agenda crap bill gates loves so much

[@otterspocket2826]

There is no shortage of labour, or any imminent prospect of one. Mass immigration is (among other things) to prevent a shortage of surplus labour, driving wages still further down.

[@angelau1194]

Don't worry, the occupiers are having loads of babies - they promise that they're going to take over. On another note, not so long ago everyone was advised to have smaller families because the world's resources couldn't cope with the amount of people on earth. So what is it, too many or not enough?

[@beefy0978]

Everywhere women have been educated and drawn into the workforce the birth rate drops. Its no coincidence that there are more children being born to islamic families…

[@sekovittol3124]

We pay foreigners to stay home and populate themselves.

[@Suttisan78]

AI will fill the labour gap, then there will be thousands not working roaming the streets.

[@wildsurfer12]

This is what happens when you don’t build enough houses and overvalue your existing ones to overseas investors.

[@martynblackburn9632]

The sacred free market?

[@1aatlas]

@@martynblackburn9632 "free" so long as you have massive piles of currency, otherwise your options are pretty limited.

[@incurableromantic4006]

@@martynblackburn9632 Only if you think consistent and massive government intervention to engineer one desired outcome over 25 years is "free markets".

[@davidgifford8112]

UK population has been economically disincentivised in having children, the family unit eroded in favour of a much cheaper ready grown and schooled immigrant population. Having children in the UK is costly, time consuming and restrictive and with the state policy of “from the cradle to the grave, there is now reason to have them. I know of plenty of couples who chose to be childless as it would have wreaked their holiday and leasure plans.

[@rhysjaggar4677]

Then businesses need to pay their workers enough that they can AFFORD to have more kids. The whole system of sky high house prices, lower and lower wages and food inflation running rampant is hardly the formula for 'having more children', is it?

[@MrHellelement]

The key to this issue is to HEAVILY penalize childless people. Less tax cuts, smaller pensions, smaller paychecks, and less social benefits all together. Make it extremely hard to thrive as a single person. The hard part is changing the culture of the media to revere and respect motherhood and fatherhood. Also, tax the shit out of or outright ban pornography.

[@kevsimmo11]

AI is going to decimate jobs over the next 20 years...More people is not the answer..The need Labour will reduce

[@martynblackburn9632]

How many jobs will AI create?

[@popculture70]

Hungary is offering loans to married couples for each child they have. At 4 children the loan is written off.

[@christopherlord3441]

If you give young women a straight choice between children and expensive shoes and handbags, the majority will go for shoes and handbags. If they can go out to work to buy their own shoes and handbags they no longer need men or children. That's what's happened in Japan, South Korea and the big cities in China. It's the glamour industry that does it. There's a district in Seoul devoted to plastic surgery for girls from all over East Asia who turn up clutching photos of their favourite K-pop star and go home delighted with the results. In rural China, the girls all leave for city life in search of shoes, handbags, plastic surgery and the rest of it. They say they want to get married, but they all want tall, handsome millionaires because they've been told that glamorous girls like them deserve that. So the young men in the countryside are left single and lonely. It's not a question of childcare policy. It's mass competitive consumerism.

[@philipfreyaborn8288]

Oh really --- what about when they said most people would not have jobs because of automation and robots? more bs

[@bigtony4829]

who cares about GDP and profit margins a global population;ation of 5 billion sound pretty nice to me

[@annmorgan5130]

When you consider the hideous state of our country now, it's not surprising the British people don't want to bring children into it. I really fear for the future of my children and grandchildren

[@TRONRINZLER]

Most people can't afford to have children, famillies, buy a home or even go on a holiday or even go out once a week...or even eat 2-3 meals a day or work less than 70+hrs a week....low wages, high taxes, insane prices, the country is fucked and has been for decades. Then add the insane things going on and huge increase in crime, people just don't want to have kids anymore through choice even if they can afford to as the country has gone to crap. People who were alive in the 70's/80's/90's + remember what it was like...things have gone really downhill in comparison. Just think how much worse off kids born today will be compared to then...the difference is massive.

[@sekovittol3124]

"people just don't want to have kids anymore through choice" What allows that choice? Birth control and termination of 'accidental' pregnancies. What if there was no birth control option? People would be more sexually responsible and settle down and start families instead of being fruitlessly promiscuous.

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

Africans are having more babies than whites put together . .

[@Lynne76]

I'm 70 and always loved my country but now I really wish I could leave, there's nothing left for us Brits here 😢

[@HappyCamper84]

In more developed countries, women have more choices and a lot dont want to rush to have kids. Rather than importing people who hate us, have no desire to help this country, they should incentivise having families and fix the economy. End the gravey train/free ride.

[@jasperhorace7147]

Wrong mindset. Less is more. Whatever happened to ZPG?

[@derekdouglas6757]

And the muslims keep pumping them out! It's maths!!!!!

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

They know, they know.

[@sammiehall4415]

they are controlled by the Quran and their men...indigenous are more not controlled by religion

[@BonusHole]

Only as long as they can live off the Tax payer. 80% of Muslim women are claiming benefits. In their own countries they have loads of kids and most don't survive. They don't care.

[@Ophelia2474]

All my friends and I are comfortable mid upper salary bracket. Everyone is only having one child because of the cost of a good life

[@1aatlas]

Selfish people making poor choices, surprise surprise. Your ancestors carried your genes from the beginning of humanity until present day so that your very existence was possible and it will likely all end thanks to you because you wanted "a good life" Its not my genetic lineage, what do i care. Darwinism.

[@chrishart8548]

If people can't buy a house people are not having kids. Look how crazy house prices are now often 13x income. I don't have a house and I had a child what a stupid mistake that was !

[@teoleno4019]

It's way worse in Eastern Europe not East Asia. East Asian countries are extremly overpopulated and crowded.

[@jamiefoyers2800]

Problem is that machines are taking over jobs. You have the "physical" machines doing the manual labour and AI taking over the creative industries...so WHAT do all these "extra" workers are going to do as a "worker"?. Fix machines and become slaves to technology?. I dislike intensely all these people that seem to put the sum worth of human existence on "breeding capacity"...not all of us fall in line with "these rules"...some of us would certainly upset the applecart of societal "norms" if the truth came out.

[@normangoldstuck8107]

If humans go extinct perhaps dinosaurs will re-evolve. Not a bad thing.

[@avagrego3195]

If one has fewer people one needs less laborers because one needs to produce fewer goods.

[@oliviachipperfield6029]

World population continues to rise. Perhaps western nations have decreasing growth of population, but overall, the global rate of growth is increasing. Why do you think there are millions upon millions literally bursting the gates. They have been crowded out of their countries, leaving few opportunities. In 1900 the world population was about 2 billion. 125 years later, a geoligical snippet in time, the world population is now at a crazy 8 billion and growing. The only way that we could have quadrupled our population in such a short period of time was through the use of fossil fuels. This is actually not normal when compared to rest of human history. This carbon pulse, unfortunately, is limited - it wont last forever. We have set ourselves a trap.

[@arunkumarm18]

It’s worlds responsibility to take care on overpopulation of each country, but western countries never cared enough about overpopulated countries, now due to immigration whole world is suffering. Unemployment is increasing.

[@Mazalinda]

If people feel financially secure and safe from terrorist attacks and the threat of war they will have more children. It wasn’t that long ago that fewer children was held up as a virtue! Most of my friends and family have limited their children to two because it was all about overpopulation and doing the best for the planet.

[@sekovittol3124]

But they forgot to tell the 3rd world. They don't care about the state of the world. They are still breeding and replacing themselves and growing in numbers.

[@chriswatson1698]

A child is two dependents: the child himself and the adult who had to care for it. In my family of origin, the worker:dependent ratio was 1:5, and that was normal. Then in the 1970s, women stopped producing dependents and became worker/taxpayers themselves, resulting in an unnaturally high proportion of workers to dependents. The ageing of the population is the return to a more natural ratio of workers to dependents.

[@DippyB189]

The problem is large population growth followed by a birth rate decline. It leaves businesses without labour or consumers which means recession. Recession means politicians loose jobs. It also means the average age of the population increases which is a drain on resources. A double economic whammie.

[@barneymagee3285]

Britain is dying , next time you’re out and about, have a look at the young ‘men’ , then you’ll understand why …. ( and they’re going to conscript this lot for a war)….. 😂😂😂

[@incurableromantic4006]

They've got no hope, no prospects, no future: and their ruling class openly hate them. Can't blame them for being depressed.

[@Danny_SE11]

Bad parenting too, the standard of parenting in Britain hasn't recovered from Gen X getting neglected by their Boomer parents. That's where the fall of from a British point of view happen. Black people is absent Fathers and Muslims is raising their children like they are still in the middle East

[@deco2132]

'Industry needs more workers' - weird for the last 10 years we've been hearing about how AI and technology will reduce the need for labor. Make your mind up.

[@rollopolloboymarch1074]

Historically, the way to prevent exploding birth arates is by educating females, yet its a mystery as how to increase birth rates.

[@JamesMockridge-u8t]

We have centuries before we need to worry about being snuffed out. Japan has turned to technology rather than import the world and have only recently opened their doors and the consequences have been predictable.

[@mina_loi]

ppl aren't having kids bc they can't afford them, change the issues with the economy discouraging ppl from starting their families and they will.

[@Leoviliti1]

Simple answer ...due to the immigration problem ...we can't afford to have more children ! So it's a catch 22.

[@maryduffy2036]

Two words, CHEAP LABOUR

[@stephfoxwell4620]

We have no demographic crisis. Why must our population continue to grow?

[@hkonhelgesen]

We are adaptive. We adapt to poverty by not having children.

[@Niko5black]

What Wong with a small population?

[@derekdouglas6757]

OH!! Feminism!!

[@BonusHole]

Now they can kill their own babies there's a shortage of humans. Who could have possibly foreseen this!

[@rd123.]

Feminism is to blame

[@sekovittol3124]

Yep, encouraged women to believe traditional roles were like a patriarchal prison. You go girl!

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

+ Immigration from west Asia and africa ..

[@Malayalikada]

​@@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361feminism is to blame

[@yesenochwasRIGHT]

Tuuuunnnneeeesssss!!! This woman needs them.

[@midgemagoo]

How on earth are people expected to have more children in the UK when wages are kept low and costs are rising all the time.

[@roysoo]

imposing Decree 770 like what Romania did between 1966 and 1989 meaning Mandatory birth for all Mothers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770

[@terrytaylor1394]

So we had a far better population balance up to the 70s. Yet we had far fewer people in the UK in total. This doesn't explain why we need so many more people than that now.

[@grimekid666]

underpopulation? has this man ever been outside?

[@Sparkly14]

The wealthy people have less children that means the West where it’s so expensive to rear them.

[@cookiemonster2299]

Less people means less resources required ffs 🤷, it doesn't get any greener than that.

[@stevewebb4542]

One of the main reasons for population numbers dropping,is high taxation pressures being pushed by governments especially in the west. Working families struggling with housing and bills, will inevitably push back on having kids, it’s happening in Japan even china,high taxes higher stress levels woke culture feminisation of men leads to shrinking populations, simple logic really you don’t need to be a scientist to work this out.🤔anyway back to reality vote reform this Thursday or face the consequences 😇😎🇬🇧👍👍👍👍

[@jan_darysh]

Not about a declining birthrate. UK wanted immigration. System.

[@flabbybum9562]

Come on ladies - do your duty!

[@longevity-u1z]

i would love to have more children and i am embarrassed & regret my past choices, but i am 61. perhaps this is one reason to advance ongoing 'longevity' research? alternatively, perhaps companies should employ older people to sit on sofas in their offices to just 'be there'. they might be surprised how much this increases 'productivity'?

[@deborahlea5669]

Shame Africa doesnt have this problem!

[@iant9461]

Problem is, a great emphasis is put on the father by the children and therefore there is no incentive for the men to stop plunging as it keeps them permanently relative and at the helm. Shame that in the west they have developed bragging rights about having as many fatherless children as possible.

[@Jack-fs2im]

Russia has limited abortion to 12wks to help population growth and stop it falling

[@BonusHole]

We thought we could give women the right to kill their own babies and that they'd be reasonable about it. We where such fools.

[@anthonyslevin1717]

And there you have it.

[@Deeejjj64]

What a load of bollox

[@YUDNSAY]

Somebody is fuelling the narrative here...

[@oddity4650]

Yes i will still a misanthropic, there is to many reasons for not breeding.

[@fredkaijuka7717]

Did that woman call Africa a country?the ignorance though🤦‍♂️

[@evieshore3270]

No , she said and what's the situation like in Africa @2:17

[@fredkaijuka7717]

@@evieshore3270 repeat the thread again and u will knw whti am talking about.

[@BonusHole]

@@evieshore3270 She used the wrong vowels and continents.

[@whitecrowg1]

I am generation X there was like 7 kids in my primary school and no one ever talks about generation x Much . Now there talking about class sizes of 41 kids in secoundary schools in england.

[@jan_darysh]

It has nothing to do with other countries or other people. UK wanted.

[@longevity-u1z]

Surely the last few centuries have been more innovative/creative than ever and look what's happened to our eco-system, with respect?

[@longevity-u1z]

@@dogbreaththe3rd851 i wish there were less coverage of it in the media, therefore.

[@skylinefever]

Japan and South Korea have super low birth rates. Their politicians did not invite in boat people to make up the difference. Breed or let randos in is a false dictomy. It's just rich people deamding more exploitables.

[@stuartfitch7093]

This guy has ot so wrong. Of course it can be about money in a rich country. In the UK which we are told is a rich country, which in reality we are a poor country with all the debt the country has, even if you are on a good wage you can still have a garbage life because of the cost of living. A man who has a million pounds but has £999,999 in debts and bills is a poor man but a man who has £100,000 but £10,000 in debts and bills is a rich man. We might get higher wages in the UK than other countries but by the time your income tax, mortgage, council tax, gas and electricity etc has gone out ypu are a pauper.

[@Trustno_1-k6f]

Finally the truth

[@raymondgreenwood9617]

Perhaps a more family (adult male, adult female, and children) oriented polity is a good idea.