| Ka-pi96 said: I still don't get why that bothers you though. When the human race becomes extinct it will be a long long time after you've died, I could understand if it was something that was going to happen in your lifetime, but it's not really going to affect you in the slightest since you want be around anymore when it does happen. Besides, you're ignoring the fact that lowered fertility rates aren't permanent. People can start to have more babies if they want to, and if it got to the point that the future of the race seemed in danger I have no doubt people would be much more willing to have more then. But for now it just shows that humanity isn't a simple virus that reproduces until it's population is too large for the environment to support, but instead that they can balance themselves out. |
I don't know about that. You might end up being right but in my lifetime I could actually see large number of our population being culled in the name of both development and progress. When I'm dead I expect our most probable peak (10 billion) to be reduced to 8 billion ...
You're right that fertility rates aren't permanent but people are actually deciding whether they either want to be rich or to have kids ...
And humanity is a virus but you're right that the population being too large as an issue is nonexistent since we'd never be able to maintain the extra lives so they die instead before reaching old age or even see the light of adulthood ...
