Darn, I really want to reply! But Mom also taught me not to feed Internet trolls.
BTW, Mom, thanks for being such a great parent when I was little!
:-)
BTW, Mom, thanks for being such a great parent when I was little!
:-)
I'm beginning to fear that for the vast majority of humans the urge to procreate is ingrained at such a fundamental level that no amount of rational thought can overcome it. Like the 3 laws of robotics that cannot be overruled, humans seems to have a rule that 'thou shall increase thy numbers'. We could grow until the planet is covered in 100 story skyscrapers where everyone lives like in a Japanese capsule hotel and there would still be people insisting that we grow the population.
Frankly, I think we as a species are fucked.
The correlation is well-known and widely documented. Native - i.e. non-immigrant - populations in the US and Europe are both shrinking now, sometimes dramatically.
And when is that going to be something that's true for the entire global population ? It would require us to get rid of some massive issues regarding inequality and that is never going to happen.
I think we are headed in the right direction though. The rate of growth plateaus in very developed nations, so we might just survive the current craziness.