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Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations: "It's a crisis"
CBS News ^ | 3/3/2021 | Unattributed

Posted on 03/03/2021 7:32:01 PM PST by semimojo

New data is confirming a baby boom that some doctors expected was actually a "baby bust." Health departments in more than two dozen states provided records to CBS News, showing a 7% drop in births in December — nine months after the first lockdowns began.

Researchers say it continues a much bigger plunge in fertility in recent decades.

The number of babies the average woman in the U.S. is expected to deliver has dropped from nearly four in the 1950s to less than two today...

While the global population is still growing, a major study published in The Lancet in 2020 predicted it would peak in 2064, and then fall by nearly a billion people by the end of the century — the reason being, fewer babies.

The U.S. is already below the so-called "replacement level" by some measures, meaning fewer young people to support the country's otherwise aging population.

"We need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors, who deserve their retirement, they deserve all their entitlements, and they're gonna live out another 30 years," he said. "Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: birthrate
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A falling global population will cause havoc with almost every national economy - especially ours. Don't underestimate how much of what we're doing depends on continued growth.

We can hang on by selling more to the rest of the world, which is growing for now, but we need to rethink our long term strategy.

1 posted on 03/03/2021 7:32:01 PM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo

Multi-generational bastardy is a much bigger problem than is falling birthrates.

Much bigger.


2 posted on 03/03/2021 7:34:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: semimojo

Global wombing!


3 posted on 03/03/2021 7:34:22 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: semimojo

Its not a crisis

Theres no requirment we must produce more and more people

We have no crisis making new people

The population is rising despite covid fearporn and the world ending in 9.8 years

Why are we worried when the world ends in less than 10 years according to the climate nazis?


4 posted on 03/03/2021 7:35:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: semimojo

Less people equals a lower carbon footprint.

The “scientists” and “experts” should be celebrating.


5 posted on 03/03/2021 7:35:15 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: semimojo

A falling population is far preferable to flooding the third world in. And it MIGHT be better than these woke America-hating deviants breeding.
The silver lining is that the Americans we don’t want to breed aren’t, and the ones we want are more likely to.
We can make something out of that result if we get the chance.


6 posted on 03/03/2021 7:35:51 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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How about we stop importing old people?
7 posted on 03/03/2021 7:37:22 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: Secret Agent Man

True. And the falling birthrate/population “crisis” is always pitched to us as the reason we need millions of Mexicans, Africans, Indians and orientals flooding in.


8 posted on 03/03/2021 7:37:23 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: semimojo

We kill 4000 per day. In case the Collectivists are wondering where the people went.


9 posted on 03/03/2021 7:38:35 PM PST by lurk ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Multi-generational bastardy is a much bigger problem than is falling birthrates.

Much bigger.
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very true.


10 posted on 03/03/2021 7:38:38 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: semimojo

Kind of a shame that we’re not seeing a population increase coming out of a time when most of us had nothing to do but each other...


11 posted on 03/03/2021 7:38:38 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers ("I don't come from money. I come from the opposite of money. I come from... no money." - Ron White)
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The Dems are way ahead of you. They’re covering any birth shortage by bringing people in from other countries.


12 posted on 03/03/2021 7:40:31 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: semimojo

It’s okay, it’s all rainbows!

Put some birth control pills in that boys Pez dispenser.

They’re not going to over populate Mother Earth, no sir—only 9 years left.

Bill Gates probably orgasmed when he read this article..


13 posted on 03/03/2021 7:41:42 PM PST by Irenic
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What do they expect after teaching 2 generations of schoolchildren that they are the biggest threat to Mother Earth, Gaia?

Then add to that that western civilization is the most destructive force on the planet.

They got their wish. Planet earth will be populated only by primitive people. Dream come true. How is this a disaster? It’s a little late to tell millions of millenials “Just kidding”.


14 posted on 03/03/2021 7:42:02 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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“Nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people to deal with.”

Ummm. . . try China. They were counting on us to support them, but somehow they also thought that if they destroyed our economy and civilization, everything would be just hunky-dory.

Maybe someday these “elitists” will rub a few brain cells together. . .then, maybe not.


15 posted on 03/03/2021 7:44:33 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: semimojo

Well, I had 4 kids and my oldest is 24 and getting married next year and his girlfriend wants LOTS of babies.

So I’ve done my part!


16 posted on 03/03/2021 7:44:50 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: semimojo

It’s grandparents who encourage grandchildren to get married and have children. And from this data I can tell I’m not the only one holding back. The hellhole is forming... and I don’t want my line ending up in chains.


17 posted on 03/03/2021 7:46:10 PM PST by GOPJ ("Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud" - CACAGNY)
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I don't have hard data to back this up, but conservatives view children and life as a virtue. Leftists tend to view children as a carbon footprint and are likely under-producing or aborting.

Thus, leftist will find their offspring and their fatalistic views in the vast minority in 20 years. Welcome to the jungle!

18 posted on 03/03/2021 7:46:17 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: semimojo

FREE BABY MURDERS FOR EVERYBODY...but we are running out of babies. So do they want more babies so Planned Barrenhood can kill more and make more money, or what.


19 posted on 03/03/2021 7:53:35 PM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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What do they expect after teaching 2 generations of schoolchildren that they are the biggest threat to Mother Earth, Gaia?

I think it's just the way societies go as they get more prosperous. Low child mortality, not needing lots of kids to work on the farm and not having to depend on them to take care of aging parents have all led to lower birth rates throughout the West.

20 posted on 03/03/2021 8:01:00 PM PST by semimojo
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