Posted on 07/14/2020 10:27:19 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a "jaw-dropping" impact on societies, say researchers.
Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.
And 23 nations - including Spain and Japan - are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.
Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born.
What is going on? The fertility rate - the average number of children a woman gives birth to - is falling.
If the number falls below approximately 2.1, then the size of the population starts to fall.
In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime.
Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed the global fertility rate nearly halved to 2.4 in 2017 - and their study, published in the Lancet, projects it will fall below 1.7 by 2100.
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No one will deal with the elephant in the living room, at least in the West - which is Liberalism.
When most of us were young here, women had few choices in life - be a school teacher, a secretary, or home maker, and most didn’t go to college. So most became a home makers, but then that gets a bit boring if no little ones.
Now we come to present day. Women can do anything they want, and even have rules bent for them, when necessary. They are more numerous than men in college, and many, if not most have careers. Children get in the way and can easily be prevented via abortion/contraception.
Sure some, many, put children first. Go to Japan, even Tokyo, and you’d be wondering what all of the fuss is about - lots of little Japanese kiddies (with hot-looking moms, by the way). But it’s the women you don’t see out with their kids during the day that is killing the country. In fact, 30 years ago when Japan Inc. was buying out the United States, Rush joked that all we needed to do was ‘export liberalism’ to them. We did (they ended their patriarchal system there), and they’ll soon be finished as a major power (unless they want to get serious about fixing it).
So, how to fix it? Simple - society has to accept that women having children is a CAREER CHOICE now, where in the past they were essentially forced into it. Sure, some make the right choice, but only, maybe, half of them now (if that). So make it profitable for them, so they can both afford the nice mini-van and have kids at the same time. So, PAY THEM to have kids (and tell Greta to F-off). Barring that, it’s game over for the west - there is no middle ground. Some countries are starting to do that, and are getting some results, but they need to step it up.
If the predictions are accurate, then there won't be anyone to migrate in.
Robots can easily replace migrants.
The Great Tribulation is nigh...
This is a very bad thing.
Wow, you win the prize for one of the dumbest comments ever posted here, and that is quite an accomplishment.
Industrialism happened in the 19th century and produced a lot of prosperity.
Socialism, communism, and war were the hallmarks of the twentieth century. One of Marxism central themes is animosity towards the family. Anyone with two brain cells can figure it out from there.
Because so many people have gone homo.
“ The population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to treble in size to more than three billion people by 2100.
And the study says Nigeria will become the world’s second biggest country, with a population of 791 million.”
Although the future can’t be accurately predicted from the past, I’d imagine that there will be several events in Africa that will trim those numbers quite a bit. However, it’s still a worrisome idea that there might be 3 billion people wanting to flee their homelands.
I suppose the elevation of women and the debasement of men has absolutely nothing g to do with low fertility. /s
But then this is by design, IMHO.
Depends on the kids.
The population decline has been and is being driven by The Pill. However, the headline beginning Sept./Oct. will be something like, "birth rate rises dramatically." Giving birth to future "Quaranteens."
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