| Conina said: Ain't it a good thing if fertility goes down in many countries? The world population has grown from 1.65 billion to 7.6 billion since 1900 and is still growing on a planet with limited resources: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ Do we really need more people on the planet? |
Yes unless we seriously want to burden our future generations with the task of maintaining social security ... (both China and Japan are time ticking bombs with the majority of baby boomers reaching a high age of 60+ years)
I'm not one bit convinced that overpopulation is even a problem because there's an obvious trade-off between life quality and quantity of lives so the sooner developing countries realize that, the easier their lives will become ...
Having many offspring is just a defense mechanism for being able to pass on genes but once citizens of developing countries start demanding higher quality of life the replacement rate will drop well below 2.1 children per mother across the world ... (currently the majority of nations that do have a higher replacement rate are from Africa, South/Western Asia and the Pacific Islands)
