The shape of population to come | Lisa Berkman | TEDxHarvardCollege

[@Hrshsngh_19]

I've never wanted kids in my entire life. I do love them but never wanted them. People ask me why I don't want kids and I simply ask them why do you want? For a long time we have been taught this is the thing you're supposed to do. Well I live in India and here the life is completely different, I grew up in crowded streets, train station and we'll every thing is crowded and maybe this changed my mind. The things that you should consider before having kids are your financial condition, the society you live in, your drive to raise a child and the most important thing do you want a child? There are people out there who don't want to have kids for various reasons like global warming, donating there resources to the needy, world economy, job security, and now the new thing will be COVID-19. If it was upto me I will ask people first to donate money to the poor kids in your country or wherever your feel comfortable.

[@ramkumar-lc1st]

Hey are you in our childfree group!? Wanna join?

[@Hrshsngh_19]

@@ramkumar-lc1st no thank you.

[@Mr.Hot_Take]

@@ramkumar-lc1st do share the details on your group, as there many of us who would certainly like to join!

[@richardgoldfine3191]

The implication that we may peak at "only" ten billion people should make us relax is wrong! Ten billion people will utterly destroy the Earth's ecosystem .

[@david50665]

Still stuck with the 60's population timebomb thinking

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

Relax, 10 billion people can easily fit, and we have at least a few decades to get ready. But isn't it quite likely that we will continue on growing perhaps way beyond 10 billion people? So much the better, as more and more people would be glad to live.

[@giannicapra4280]

It's silly to just think we can be more than we actually are. That's the result of our social inventions, like religions, economy, and the like. Luckily enough it doesn'd depend on us, we are poison, nature will soon come up with the antidote. So, yes, relax...

[@terencemullins1422]

@@yosefmacgruber1920 with an open sewer flowing past your shack

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

@@giannicapra4280 And what makes you think that nature is against us? Nature wants humans more and more populous. What could be more natural for humans than our natural increase?

[@tomato-v8x]

The amount of views on this video shows that no one has interest in this topic. Humans are acting disgustingly and selfishly that they have no time to think about this crisis. Only a few people have the voice and power to tell other people what will happen and how to solve it, but even if there are solutions, no one will take the time and effort to solve it. Just like the climate crisis, there are solutions given to us, right in front our faces. But what do we do? We as humans, ignore them.

[@robbenvanpersie1562]

Ignoring will only postpone the crisis to happen

[@guada71]

The "climate crisis" will lead to depopulation

[@fixinfkinsandwiches6183]

In general, educated responsible people are more hesitant to breed.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

That's true, but crop production is the main factor.

[@thor4164]

Nonsense. Those hesitant to breed are often career oriented money grabbers

[@factswise-psychologicalfac84]

😂 Education in today's universities is PROPOGANADA!

[@runningfromabear8354]

Where do you come to that conclusion? My father has his doctorate and had 3 daughters. My sister's have master's degrees and they both have 3 kids each. I just have a bachelor's degree and have 3 kids. We lost our youngest child to cancer at 12 years old, so we're having our fourth. It's a considered decision. My husband and I have 200 acres in Canada with our own lake. We have a passive home and live off grid, grow our own food and have some livestock. We earn income WFH. All of our decisions have been made thoughtfully and deliberately. As the world heats up, we've carefully chosen a sustainable home that will be warmer but shouldn't get too hot. RIP snow by 2050. I'm not saying everyone who has kids has been cautious and thoughtful but most people I know have taken family planning very seriously.

[@user-ju1qd3ok2g]

They would breed like Rabbits... if they could...

[@ggrthemostgodless8713]

Social security?? Most of us know that ship has sailed and cannot count on it; they keep taking the money out of paycheques mainly to support the old people; but we don't expect to benefit from it, like most taxes.

[@wolmandbaker6858]

As a kid in the 80s I read that the planet cannot support more than 6 billion...so "only" 10 billion is still a stretch.

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

More perks for people who don't breed.

[@advocate1563]

Some of sadly tried very very hard to breed but were unsuccessful. Some of us grieve our loss, we don't seek the perks .....

[@giannicapra4280]

And some just decide to be responsible by not breeding.

[@thegreatonetheone8226]

Salute

[@kenbiron1964]

How does the Opite Epidemic affect the growth rates? Could it be population control? Just asking. I have noticed it it should, as it is killing most frequently those of breeding ages, most likely before many offspring are produced.

[@trojanhorse4801]

I used this in my report thanks

[@joemcglue2881]

we need serious contraception & population control the cure for all our problems is a reversal of all we have done to date is this woman serious education is the biggest solution world health is rotten

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

Population control is tyranny. We should not even try to restrain our burgeoning population sizes. More and more people would be glad to live. The more populous that we can become, the more people around to experience life. What could be more win-win for humans? I have long discouraged the usage of birth control and encouraged people to have large families, as I believe every human life to be of immense value and sacred. We should respect our bodies' reproductive rhythms and not hinder its attempts to get pregnant. Whatever happened to children being a blessing?

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

@@yosefmacgruber1920 Demand has overtaken supply in many areas on this planet. less people would be an improvement. We do not realize the damage we are doing until it will be too late.

[@towboattrash]

Anyone notice the falling population on the graph stopped at 500 million? Ever read the Georgia guide stones?

[@lilylife4426]

Already went from 6 billion (time of the video) to almost 8 billion in less than 3 years...

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

6 billion people on the planet officially was claimed to be in the year 1999. So we are at nearly 8 billion people about 2 decades later. And it is good that the population is rising, as more and more people would be glad to live.

[@نادرالیراحمان]

It reached 7 billion in 2011 and is over 7.5 billion currently. That's what i read.

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

An excess of 80 million humans are added to the globe every year.

[@marin7615]

Her confident and satisfied face makes me angry. So busy thinking about ways to make old people "useful" and life long education, while the real problems on our planet are lack of resources such as fuel, water, food, minerals etc. and we have pollution and climate change. Overpopulation may last a few generations but as soon as we run out of fuel we will be forced to go back probably to 2 billion very rapidly. Nature always balances the ecosystem.

[@sussanhashemi8353]

People like her are the problem. Idiotic gibberish.

[@geoffreyharris5931]

Good. There are far too many people in the world, by perhaps a factor of 100.

[@greg1030]

>> 100 million/yr more since the early 60s (along with an otherwise welcomed reduced death rate). Certainly not slow enough to ever decelerate climate change to less than hazardous levels.

[@shelleydooney3720]

So what happens when all these old people die? If there's so many more old than young...

[@sophiebell4758]

We will be less People. I read that this turn will be around 2070. I cant wait to see the world with less people. Having a big home wont cost nearly as much as no. Our food production wouldnt be as bad for the envirememt as it is now.

[@lesgrenouille1487]

Repeat after me- Margaret Sanger

[@reforest4fertility]

Population dynamics can change with real small d democratizing: education, mainly of women, clean hygienic infrastructure, universal healthcare - all such things that drop pressure from people’s lives. This causes birth rates to drop below slowed infant mortality & slowed death rates. Stop the permanent war economy that constricts people’s lives, drives up infant mortality and spikes death rates, yet birth rates outstrip like stratospherically. Western democracies have needed immigration to keep GDP up, a horrifying metric. So much needs to change, can change with Bernie Sanders 2020. He has fought for people’s causes for decades, proven to do the people’s bidding for all our common causes. Then listen to Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson too. If those 3 worked together, like if TG & MW folded their candidacies into supporting Bernie’s the momentum will be unstoppable but still needs grassroots working vs $ellection chicanery

[@advocate1563]

I don't agree with your politics, but I certainly agree that female education is the path of population decline.

[@pxlmvr7]

She doesn’t really address the real reason for the coming STEEP reduction in population … the education of women. The more educated a woman is, the fewer children she has. We see this occur all over the world. The consequence of this is economic disruption, poverty, forced migration and depopulation of cities and rural areas. Immigration helps with depopulation but most countries are below replacement levels. People should be encouraged to have two children to keep the population stable enough for a viable economic base … otherwise, we have a really bad problem on our hands that is really tough to fix in the short term.

[@grahamjacob97]

So we should restrict education for women and continue to control them like we always use to? Sorry, not going to happen (and nor should it). What we need to do is to think about what is really important - and this is addressed in the talk. For a variety of reasons a smaller population would be better for the planet. Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.

[@Land-of-reason]

Hi, Has anyone linked this to globalisation and carbon dioxide emission levels and GDP?

[@Peace-ju9us]

a super flu pandemic would help out

[@lesgrenouille1487]

It's already here

[@shubhamsagarsingh9451]

Covid-19 comes in.

[@sophiebell4758]

@@shubhamsagarsingh9451 but covid 19 dont kill nearly enough people to make a difference

[@shubhamsagarsingh9451]

@@sophiebell4758 we are all lucky bastards

[@goygoyim6443]

@@sophiebell4758 the vaccine will....

[@guada71]

The shape of population is...depopulate

[@confettiRedPill]

the population primed looks like a balloon thats going to pop

[@RSEFX]

Life was so much nicer when Earth only had to host 3 billion.

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

There was a lot of problems then also, some of which have now been at least somewhat solved. There was no internet, most people did not have air conditioning. Computers were giant sized and pretty much only for governments and universities. So just how was life better back then?

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

@@yosefmacgruber1920 Adding more people now will increase the drain on our finite resources. All those objects you mention need to come from somewhere. Look at the consequences already from providing these objects and services. Sure some quality of life is improving for a select few. Life quality is diminishing for more and more each day from overpopulation.

[@TheGreatTimSheridan]

population is currently taking 70 years to double. but the afro middle east and mexico double every 39 years. we are under invasion by the equatorial peoples. they grow 4-5 times faster here to.. sheridan program 2 child per family incentives repatriation incentives to latitude and hemisphere of origin.

[@yosefmacgruber1920]

So whose fault is it that you reproduce way too slowly?

[@timkeachie7306]

we do not have 6 kids any more only after war that make the pop grow

[@ronholfly]

Lisa Berkman who is kidding who

[@edwinsolis6021]

Isn't it ironic they want to decrease population but do not want to improve food production. Why not plant fruit trees on those barren land. Why not transform desert lands to agricultural. Everybody is making money for food to live. But nobody wants to make real food. Only farmers / agriculturist are making real food and they are not getting suport from government. Population is not the problem, we all depend on nature. We must cultivate nature.

[@uzairael8138]

Remove borders of countries automatically population will reduced . Remove passport system as well any one can go anywhere is basic human right .

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Well said. Agreed. Conservatives want big unnecessary government to control people.

[@everope]

Remove the doors from your house and automatically the street will be less full.

[@wildcampingharry]

No. You do not have the automatic right to move to and live in my country. Do it legally or (preferably) not at all.

[@tenialind3480]

But you are one the population Mrs Beckman. So what about you?

[@The5thW]

Of course you stop demonizing freedom to die, duh.

[@12q8]

We've come a long way from this. Look up _Empty Planet: Preparing for the Global Population Decline_

[@markstaddon4993]

There are alot more things going ,waste of my time watching this video

[@sn8840]

Dear Lisa, do you have children ?

[@terencemullins1422]

Is she pro or anti pop ??

[@blaynecarlton7502]

We need quit spending time on worrying about how all this will play out and trust God to provide everything we need. The estimation of how many years it took to populate the earth is just a guess because there is no such thing as a year. The earth is flat and stationary not revolving around the sun.