'Empty Planet': The Looming Danger of Population Collapse Is Real

Empty playgrounds. Schools without enough students to stay open. Small towns, deserted and abandoned. This is not some dystopian vision of the future. Demographers say this is our future.
Global population growth is leveling off, and as early as the second half of this century could begin to shrink for the first time since the Black Death struck the world almost 700 years ago.
"Everything that we understand that functions in our societies today, that depends on people, which is almost everything, is going to change," says Stephen J. Shaw, a data scientist, demographer and producer of the film Birthgap.
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[@crovian7]

No more slaves for the rich.

[@KyleEvra]

Preach it! 😊 🙌🏽❤

[@sweden_is_gone]

Yes. Fewer children means fewer workers and consumers (slaves!). 👍😉

[@sweden_is_gone]

Let the rich work for themselves.

[@jonnuanez7183]

Nope. They'll turn whoever is left into slaves for the rich. That's how that works.

[@friedrichjunzt]

Image Elon actually having to work and not only snort ketamine!

[@ahsaniqbal5084]

Population collapse i.e no more slaves to milk 😂

[@paulsawczyc5019]

When there is population growth, you can print more money - that's what they will never talk about.

[@J.A.N.E.T]

Welcome to identity politics! Everyone can feel for everything, so you’re welcome.

[@quantumchang4410]

No souls chooses to reincarnate on Earth anymore.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

@@quantumchang4410 So many people are choosing not to have children.

[@quantumchang4410]

@@paulsawczyc5019 Maybe the way people feel about not having children is a consequence of souls no longer interested to be reincarnated back into this world because they could see the future where this world is headed to.

[@adamheuer8502]

And the Amish shall inherit the Earth

[@chinookvalley]

Our Amish neighbors, in their 60's, have over 300 children, grandchildren and grandchildren. Our area can't keep growing like this. It's insane to have this many children.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

@@chinookvalley There were big Irish families when I was a kid - you don't see that no more - maybe the same will happen with the Amish.

[@WadudSyed222]

@@chinookvalley USA has many Farmlands so they can easily have modern farm and make the Farming Industry bigger. They aren`t the problem they are the blessing to USA.

[@snowheader2200]

@@chinookvalleybetter then than godless communists.

[@quantumchang4410]

I think you meant Muslims.

[@notdave2993]

Isn’t that what they’ve been wanting to happen? To save the planet or something?

[@VoxWodler]

Yeah man

[@Emptytopfloor]

Yup

[@SC-fj2zp]

It's going as planned!

[@bcbeasters]

They're lots of children in Gaza that no longer have a family...

[@VoxWodler]

@@bcbeasters good!

[@kennycarter5682]

simpel solution.. reduce costs of child care. its way too expensive to raise children in the world's current economy, we can barely feed ourselves and kids can equal bankruptcy

[@bloodlove93]

true that would help some.. still doesn't solve everything unfortunately

[@axolet]

Fun fact: People in first world nations are having less children than people in developing, poorer nations. Fun fact 2: People in the past were signicantly poorer, experienced significant harship such as constant wars, and yet were still able to have several children per lifetime. In short, it was never the cost of childcare, but people's high expectations on standards of living.

[@dylangtech]

The solution is to so the opposite: Completely and totally reverse feminism and expect mothers to care for their own kids.

[@badwolf3618]

​@@axoletthe only reason less wealthy countries are having more kids is because child mortality rates are much higher in poorer countries, so some kids aren't making it to adulthood. They also need people to work on the family farm or the family business, so they have more kids to get more work out of them. This is a well documented trend that is studied by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists. As a country becomes more stable in terms of economics, technology, health care, and infrastructure, people start to have less kids because their kids are more likely to survive and also the parents are less reliant on child labor to make ends meet.

[@snowheader2200]

@@dylangtechthis is the real answer. Repeal the 19th, no more incentive for women to vote for free money.

[@freedomwatch3991]

Bad for economy, but good for the environment.

[@WadudSyed222]

If use of Renewable energy increase it doesn't matter how many is the number of people there won`t be any Environmental issues.

[@freedomwatch3991]

@@WadudSyed222 Which sources of energy do you consider to be renewable?

[@WadudSyed222]

@@freedomwatch3991 I think Wind Mill .

[@freedomwatch3991]

@@WadudSyed222 Wind farms cause a lot of environmental problems, especially when they are built offshore. Highly unreliable and low energy density means that you have to commit a large amount of space for it.

[@WadudSyed222]

@@freedomwatch3991 Without farms no one will have anything to eat and many of Amish people work in other professions.

[@bcbeasters]

They're lots of children in Gaza that no longer have a family...

[@ELCLAVE300]

I live in Los Angeles, there is no population shortage.

[@ebinrock]

This is how big cities skew everything and give the perception of overpopulation, which is probably how that scare originally came about. God's original plan in Genesis was for everybody to "spread out"!

[@user-ye1iu7qy6s]

Not with all those new comers shoved down the city 😂

[@UndertakerFromWWE]

Well atleast we won’t have to worry about pollution as much with a lower population

[@PatrickWard72]

We passed the 2 billion mark in the early 1900s. We passed the 1 billion mark in the early 1800s. Before that, our global population had less than 1 billion. Life expectancy was short, child mortality was high, yet humans endured. Living in the era we live in now, population will decrease to a level that will fit the resources available to us and then balance out. No need for alarm.

[@truthserum6672]

😂 who did the census in the 1800's

[@PatrickWard72]

@@truthserum6672 Definitely not as accurate but historical numbers were derived from religious and town records, and written accounts kept by the literate such as religious and ruling figures. The numbers were rounded to the 100,000's. When collecting the information, the researchers depended on the local historians of the community.

[@bobsontheepic42]

The population collapse that we see is very similar to Universe 25 experiment. The fertility rate in South Korea is so low and dropping so quickly that if it continues the Fertility rate in about 20 years will virtually be zero. Nobody knows where the bottom to fertility rates. We never experienced that in all of the written history. Having 1 billion of mostly young people with high fertility rate is completely different then 1 billion of elderly people and collapsing fertility rates. The collapse of fertility rate could bring massive instability un the world. Famines, war, financial and technical collapse.

[@SmartAfrican_]

@@bobsontheepic42 Oh no, that sucks... If only there were good paying jobs and affording housing ( I know it is too hard to allow people to have this ability like the baby boomers).

[@Bookhermit]

@@bobsontheepic42 Yes, but it's overpopulation that triggers the cycle. What we need is to get down to something reasonable, then stabilize.

[@jesus2621]

When people give more value to the money than to the people then this happen, people don't want to work in farms because you can have more money working in the city, people loose it's values don't want family because the living cost is higher as time goes, all this model is gonna make the humanity colapse

[@mauricamcginnis4063]

If I had a choice I would not have kids in this world 🌎 .

[@WeKnowIslam94]

Population will have to go down at least 50% this the need for happiness

[@NoOne-qd2yp]

It's hard to believe this when you are in a part of a world that is over populated.

[@kristinstrickland1038]

Agreed. This report is absurd. There are way too many people in the world. A smaller population would be amazing.

[@DelbertStinkfester]

I'm 59 years old and have 3 adult children. My youngest daughter has 5 kids. My oldest daughter is pregnant with her 5th kid. My son just had his 1st kid and is planning on having at least 3 more...My family is 100% not a part of this problem and just to let you all know, grandkids are 1000 times better then your own kids.

[@WadudSyed222]

But not everyone is like you. You have contributed to the society very much.

[@craigsurette3438]

The Earth is 4-8 times over it's population carrying capacity We need less people . We would need multiple Earth's worth of raw materials to give the whole current world's population a first world standard of living . We simply need less people The only thing a "population collapse" hurts is the profit margins of certain sectors of the economy

[@popjansen5390]

NO NO NO WE ARE NOT AFRAID JESUS IS LORD 👑 ❤❤❤

[@loh1110]

If you live in Gaza Strip or Ukraine you would think differently, but hey, you are ignorant enough to believe in fairy tales.

[@abcsfjajk]

Allah is the only God. No he is not a man nor a woman. He’s unlike his creation. Beyond our imagination.

[@rainej7013]

@@abcsfjajkWRONG

[@abcsfjajk]

@@rainej7013 Where’s your evidence?

[@victormaisey7276]

Jesus is an example of what all people should be like. Christian’s have failed to understand their purpose in life.

[@CameroonDiaz845]

Then why rents, inflation and cost of living is high?

[@jonnuanez7183]

Because those in power want to hoard what they can, and we're trapped because it's rent and food prices that are out of control.

[@user-ye1iu7qy6s]

We all know why it starts with new and ends with comers

[@RoK-Daily]

More money floating around and more old people, but less young people. Lots of older, retired people buying houses. Population will continue to increase for a bit because people are living to older ages, but fertility (young people) is decreasing.

[@patriot9713]

If that guy is scared now just imagine how he'll feel after Millions upon millions of Christians suddenly vanish

[@lisazappala4381]

I’m ready when God is 😊

[@dylangtech]

Rapture is unbiblical.

[@lisazappala4381]

@@dylangtech would you like to explain why you think that? I’d love to know your facts

[@rainej7013]

@@dylangtech no it isn’t. It is totally biblical in the Greek. in Hebrew language Bible. If you’re not looking forward to him coming back, then you won’t be going .

[@danielyounker5371]

Rapture is not Biblical, Second coming is. The ascension is not literal. The Gates of Hell will not prevail against Christ’s Church, which is Catholic.

[@deathlarsen7502]

So what??

[@Dndbdhxdvbxn257]

Who can raise a family with these food prices

[@margiehelberg4594]

Somebody should give this Shaw fellow a wakeup call. We don't even know what tomorrow will bring, let alone trying to project half a century forward. Let him go and look at what was predicted 50 years ago and how clever we think we are

[@sweden_is_gone]

Oh I think what he says is true. Others say the same thing. The population will definitely decline and maybe "collapse". The difference is that he thinks it's a bad thing whereas I'm looking forward to it. The sooner the better.

[@paulpurdue5963]

Why does anyone even bother to post a comment on CBN ? It is the worst censorship on KZbin ! Preaching to the choir !

[@goldensaurus]

WDYM?

[@vitaminprotein7786]

This is the bubonic plague in the 21st century the economic inequality plague 😂😂😂

[@panama-canada]

That’s great news!

[@JL-fo9rz]

It's too expensive to have children.

[@Firebrandrock]

Stop trying to scare us. Accept Jesus as your savior and none of this matters……live your life and enjoy what you have, no one is getting out of this anyway…

[@Joshuaeway03]

Prophecy is being fulfilled

[@kristinstrickland1038]

Yes. The viewers of CBN are Christians, but CBN itself is very secular and rarely if ever Christian.

[@jannetteberends8730]

What has Jesus got to do with it? He lived 2000 years ago.

[@Gary-lz5eb]

Good earth needs less people

[@ebinrock]

1. Isn't population one of those things that's scalable? I.e., we always have as many people as we need, and the resources follow accordingly? 2. One big thing this video didn't mention is, who in the world can really afford to have families these days, with the average home (in the U.S. anyway) being *half a million dollars*?? Not to mention the cost of cars and everything else? Not to mention unstable employment that shortly will nearly all be replaced with AI?

[@Demoman973]

Population in decline huh. Well bring it on. Man chase pollution will dramatically decline. The earth will be able to save itself. This is wonderful news!

[@paulsawczyc5019]

And maybe there will be less traffic.

[@VoxWodler]

Overpopulation or population collapse - the predictions are always wrong.

[@EpsilonKnight2]

Overpopulation is more vague and harder to calculate than population collapse because it relies on estimated resources and space people take up. Population collapse simply needs birth rates to be calculated because if they don't rise high enough then it WILL happen.

[@markelmslie6832]

Too much housing, too much space for growing food, less pollution, less need for conflicts over land, less crime?

[@lhaley9873]

Less people? That's bad?

[@sweden_is_gone]

No. It's good. 👍😉

[@A3Kr0n]

We have been talking about it since the 1970's. Nothing's really changed.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

The traffic is worse.

[@Piratedavessaltylife]

This is a good thing. Overpopulation is a problem for sustaining ourselves.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

I agree - humans are a diabolical animal, created to make all living things suffer.

[@josiemystery]

Homes decilaeted? Sounds great. I could finally move out maybe. No one to care for me when I'm old? Also great. Instead of having someone change my diaper and be stuck in bed all day getting bed sores, id rather take a drug that instantly and painlessly takes me out of this sick world. Also the planet will heal while I'm gone as im a housecleaner using up resources everyday. I'll be happy to never have to clean a toilet again 🚽

[@dannycorsaro546]

Only thing to be scared of is you and the government.

[@swift9431]

Problem they have is the majority of wrong people are having kids.

[@matzmn]

A decade ago people were worried about the world population growth. Now everybody is talking about the population decline and the change of demographic. We should not worry about it because humans are resilient and we will survive, whatever the circumstances.

[@williamriley5118]

In 1950 there were 2.5 billion people on the planet and things seemed work out fine back then.

[@solapowsj25]

At present, there's overpopulation, lack of educated and professional people. Must work to bring change.

[@nardforu131]

It just means the elderly cannot retire ever.

[@NashHinton]

What population collapse? Population growth is still going up, albeit at a slower rate. These people advocating for more people need therapy.

[@harrymaciolek9629]

Demography really doesn’t matter in the time remaining.

[@Gigilovehugs]

Finally someone brought up being in a stable relationship which is important to me and I imagine a lot of people

[@kholdway3788]

The answer to any Christian should be plain as day: Secularism is the death of society as we know it. God calls for man to be fruitful and multiply, to unionize in marriage, and to subdue the land. This is what happens when we go against the grain of life, people seek fleeting romances that lead to trauma and disappointment and end up single, bitter, lost, and childless if not creating single parent households. Have strong moral values in Christ and we will heal and prosper.

[@eLnochiCalee]

Put an incentive, 4 children or more no income tax. And no need to pay hospital bill if kids are born

[@jaritorni1530]

They have money with AI!!!!

[@dee2ttown]

All these corportations, are not paying employees, we cant afford rent, food, medical, etc

[@ltraingalaxy122]

The main reason is affordability and the risk of the relationship does not work and you are in debt for twenty of your prime years as a man

[@tommygertcher2747]

Unfortunately it's not going to be a big deal. 10 years ago it was overpopulation, now it's this. Also, fun fact, after the bubonic plague, workers got better treatment because they became more valuable.

[@nah131]

this is good new, for unborn children as they won't have to live in this hellscape dystopian world.

[@monopolybillionaire5027]

SOME PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE TIME OR MONEY TO HAVE THEM IN THIS WORLD! Start looking at that before shaming people.

[@GDub96]

Is this bad news?

[@fosta4243]

The ones complaining about the pop decline are the ones benefiting the most from the backs of other’s peoples work.

[@lilianecarvalho2940]

Se é ruim para o capitalismo consumista, é bom para o planeta!

[@Concernedvigilante]

i want more children. it’s just wayyy to expensive 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@stanleykachuik2589]

What an amazing time in history to be alive! Grab popcorn and pull up a chair. This is going to be spectacular in the next couple of decades. If not in the next few years 😅. Biggest experiment ever. The petrochemical age!💁🏻‍♂️

[@sweden_is_gone]

And the wars on top of that. Spectacular indeed! 😂

[@localguy123]

Finally !!! People are becoming smarter

[@sjcobra84]

My life. My choice. I don't want offspring. I don't want to be married. I hate my genetics. My family history is fractured on both sides.

[@lobserionia]

Less air pollution.

[@donsullivan6199]

Nope it is going to be more dramatic then that. In South Korea the population is going to drop by 2/3s in one generation then 90% in two generations.

[@JoshB-fp1qv]

Empowering women is the most effective way to reduce fertility rates and achieve a sustainable population size that respects the limits of Earth’s carrying capacity. The number of years a woman has spent in education is usually inversely correlated with the number of children she will bear in her lifetime. - Quote from population matters. There are many articles that say the same thing. The important thing is we need to continue marching toward equality. Let's get those numbers to zero people!

[@00fgytduydrtu]

I agree, women should have no education 😂😂😂😂

[@thiagocastrodias2]

We all know where things are going: cloning. Eventually, societies will have to become more accepting of cloning and 'non-natural' ways of conception, such as artificial wombs. We may not like it, but societies will resort to such means or face extinction.

[@UceScooter]

I want to add that how the economy not getting better and not just in the US makes it difficult for people to want children and start families or even get involved with someone. I am not one to let that be an excuse as people have always made a way especially being together with someone but this selfish entitled materialistic and most definitely technology internet generation has made it difficult to say the least to find someone like minded and equally yoked because it seems almost everywhere you go and turn people are more and more worldly and ungodly. Besides church MAYBE where can you go to meet someone that is a decent person who could be right to mate with? Not to mention it seems more people are deciding to stay single and to them or single and mess around. The whole world or a lot of it just seems to be Sodom and Gomorrah or worse especially in the US, why even bring children into this world with the way things are now and how it seems it will be worse in the future.

[@spiritanimal7516]

Every time I've gone to church its nothing but old people, not sure the church can help if there's no young people

[@BRIGHTJUS]

Wake Up ⏰️

[@monopolybillionaire5027]

This world isnt natural to use, we are animals and not only have we destroyed other animals homes we have destroyed our own. We didnt evolve to sit at a desk for hours, or have citys like giant ant nests. No wonder everyone is depressed.

[@butchfajardo8832]

I salute the group, NO FUTURE NO CHILDREN!!

[@dougk2932]

Mad Max ...the sequence.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

If only we had all these people trying to get into our country...

[@LRO1986]

It’s ok, they’re all here with nothing but good intentions. 😆

[@spiritanimal7516]

What happens when they become old considering migrants are mostly men I highly doubt its going to help?

[@Jake-mv7yo]

@@LRO1986 Yeah, to pick our berries and butcher our animals. How dare they.

[@eds5977]

This is good no more global warming

[@JimLambrick]

I can recall how the 'population explosion' meme of the 70's and 80's did have an effect on prospective parents limiting the number of kids in the 80's. It was subtle, but it was there. I have a suspicion the opposite may occur now. That is parents might opt to have 'one more' if their is a little social pressure cheering them on. And, another note, I kind of doubt that magical '2.1' applies anymore when you have all this gender dysphoria stuff cutting in. More like 2.4 or more my guess. If 25% of teenagers are now identifying as 'binary' are they going to be having kids?

[@Swarzec_Swarzewski]

No, and that was the whole point. Banksters and their minions were openly speaking about depopulation from 30 years. End goal is to monopolize births. By CO2 and overpopulation propaganda they want to force us into having permission to have a child. And this child would be marked as GMO product, which means it will belong to corporation (banks). Same goes with euthanasia. Banksters don't need elder people, so they already starting propaganda about saving planet and yourself from poverty etc by euthanasia (Canada for now).

[@mason2800]

This has nothing to do with economics.. you know who forced the people to serve them and they pretended to be good. They didn't follow God ✝️ and He consumes them for not following.

[@ebinrock]

Isn't saying the world is underpopulated just as chillingly "playing God" as saying it's overpopulated?

[@dontsleep9662]

But why y’all not talking bout infertility…..

[@justsomeguythatwantssometh9986]

Add feminism as salt to wounds. Capitalists took advantage that females wanted to be a work slave too.

[@jaredyoung5353]

Happens mostly in capitalist countries

[@Kermondale]

I knew that for YEARS

[@patriciachapman1945]

And you do not mention ABORTION

[@cameronking3551]

Propaganda right here.

[@user-hp3em2yb7n]

Shalom

[@SPECTORMANZ]

Nixon called it

[@HereToSuffer247]

Can someone explain what would be bad about an empty planet? A planet like Mars seems doing better than what we managed to do. Mars haven't had any deaths pain and suffering. Yeah there is no laughing happening there but why would that even be a bad thing.

[@EpsilonKnight2]

Just say you're suicidal and leave everybody else who wants to live out of it.

[@jonnuanez7183]

Go live in Mars' atmosphere and then get back to us with how it went. Seriously?

[@HereToSuffer247]

@@jonnuanez7183 thats not an answer to my question nor relevant to the question I pose. There is nothing sentient experiencing on Mars currently, why is that a bad thing or even a negative thing? Should we all be crying since there aren't Martians playing, or animals reproducing on that planet?

[@HassanAskari-vt4do]

Rich old want poor young to be slaves.

[@CShalom988]

Look at me I don’t have a partner and I’m 27. I don’t know if I want kids. Maybe if I found the one you know.

[@Matt_from_Florida]

Fearmongering. How pathetic.

[@sweden_is_gone]

Trying to fearmonger perhaps. Doesn't work on me. I'm more afraid it won't happen fast enough.

[@NashHinton]

​@@sweden_is_goneSame. I cant wait to have a whole neighborhood to myself.

[@sweden_is_gone]

@@NashHinton 😉👍

[@a1fastyellowgto]

In the last days, a loaf of bread will cost a days wages. Jesus is about to take us home, so please continue to share the Gospel my Christian brothers and sisters! I pray we don't fall asleep as the Day of The Lord draws closer.

[@Jesuslightshines]

They are all here in the US😡

[@paulholloway9464]

Japan has already devised an answer to taking care of its elderly’s loneliness when there are not enough workers to take care of them: robots. Now with these disciplines, AI, robotics, and quantum computing accelerating through self-learning algorithms, the clock to doomsday, as expressed in a popular post-apocalyptic video game, is most likely near half a second to midnight and its not due to the use of nuclear weapons, that would harm all of the upcoming AI influencers out there. All we can do is pray, stay in fellowship with a local small group of nonpartisan Bible believing believers, and stay in the middle of God’s will no matter what happens to us or to those around us.

[@Charles-mquqi]

Habibi come to India !!!

[@jaritorni1530]

Thats the goal!!!

[@mason2800]

You wanted division and diversity, and this is what happens. Those who are with Him are unafraid.

[@user-bw9of3vo8s]

I know it's easier said than done because I myself worry about certain things. But is this not a Christian broadcasting channel? Please try to set the example of trusting in God's will.

[@mgtowbylogic5592]

… and why have a kid by the way? With what “woman”? Show me a modest loyal and loving woman… I’ll wait

[@northerniltree]

The answer is in miniaturizing humanity. Smaller homes, fewer resources needed. Someone should make a movie about this.

[@lilianecarvalho2940]

There ia a movie about it, whit Matt Damon.

[@northerniltree]

@@lilianecarvalho2940 Who dat?

[@lilianecarvalho2940]

@@northerniltree movie: Downsizing .

[@herleapostol8603]

🙏✌️🌏⭐️❤️GOD BLESS us all 🌟

[@davidgabel6881]

But the crazies with their hair on fire have been warning of overpopulation all of my life.

[@Bookhermit]

And that is the real problem - too many humans

[@NashHinton]

I'm afraid the population won't collapse sooner.

[@snowyowlz5992]

Well having grown up in a family of 5 kids with money tight on enlisted man’s pay, medical issues, dysfunctional communication, and fair amount of drama. For me the logical response was only one child, focus on quality and depth of life, relationships, much better communication, love, being married to one woman for life, and do all this right the first time. Quality over quantity; no ands, ifs, or buts. My EX in-laws had a much different idea for the worse.😢 We remained married for 43 years until she passed onto Christ.

[@nathantschetter8920]

It only takes two people to fill the earth with!

[@jabohabo3821]

This is why i dont watch cbn anymore. Theyve become political camels and rarely follow the word unless quoting a popular verse