The global birth rate is tanking..

@LeopoldBloom I hope you are right. Just remember it has to flush down through the senate and the congress so that real change cant be blocked. And them we come to the states and Supreme court. Which really should be a question at all if the law was thr only factor in their decisions..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Every right that women have gained in this country, we fought for. Nobody handed it to us. Perhaps we had a "Taliban" moment with the MAGAs but hopefully, enough of us are realizing that we’re not in Afghanistan and are ready to turn things around.

@bijouxbroussard I sincerely hope so. I wont brand myself as a feminist here. But in my opinion, any society that wastes 50% of its intellectual potential deserves to fail..😷

@ChipmunkErnie For some people you may have a point. In many of the developed countries, an aging population is looking to a shortage of yournger tax payers to support them and labour for aged care work..And coincidetally most of those are "white" countries and a lot of the aged care workers are low paid non whites..😷

@SunshineGirl
Not really, Sunshine! And public funding have nothing to do with it. Many women are choosing to avoid having children right now because of the kind of world we live in and the kind of people who are running it in civilized countries. For that reason, woman are saying 'no' right now, or at least are delaying for the foreseeable future.

@swirlie But a family can also be seen as a refuge from public life. If I were capable of producing children myself I might hesitate because of environmental pollution and generally declining standards of living for the young.

@SunshineGirl
Many women around the world are sharing your thoughts, which is why the birth rate is at it's lowest ever in civilized Nations globally. This means that those same Nations will have no choice but to permit increased immigration to their country, otherwise that critical mass you speak of will not be attained.

@Doskvol Because not many people want to live where the land is. No work. No services. no future.. And we are closing in on the peak available fresh water...😷

@whowasthatmaskedman The vast majority of our "potable" water is poisoned with microplastic, heavy metal, and birth control run off anyway.

You are correct that homes need infrastructure to be attractive, and jobs are a nice plus, but less than 200 years ago most people survived without any of that.

Overpopulation really isn't the issue, and it isn't just a lack of homes, you are right that a functioning economy and infrastructure are pretty vital.

@Doskvol OK.. Someone needs a lesson in basic catchment hydrology. (Its amazing the things I have picked up) The climatic water cycle distillate the worlds water supply naturally, so pollutants are naturally filtered until the rain hits the ground again. Therefore the pollution problem is at that level only.
As for the housing, we took a vote and decided it was you and your family who had to live without indoor plumbing, electricity and the internet. (Lets see how you feel about that)
Now one mistake we could unmake is that in the places where long established cities have been for centuries, there was always arable land close by. And thats now been developed for suburbas and housing. So we need to rethink town planning and start using our best land for crops, rather than putting buildings on it..
(That last one was just to show you how great the real problem is.. As a sustainable self cleansing model, this planet is good for maybe half its current population, so that the climate can get ahead of the crap we produce, like those heavy metals and micro plastics.. Anything more than this requires more cost and planned rehabilitation than we have already proved ourselves incapable of..)😷

@Northwest The world population is expected to level out at 11 billion sometime this century, then fall slowly.

@LeopoldBloom World population today is about 8 Billion.. +2 billion = 10 billion. The model I've seen says 11 billion is the peak and it will happen in less than 35 years.

@Northwest Thats quite true..Many of our migrants are professionally trained and qualified as well. My own kids went to school with the sons and daughters of Doctors, IT specialists and educators at a tertiery level. Those kids are now in their 40s and having small, less traditional families and in my sons case, he and his wife decided on no kids and two careers. (She is Singapore Chinese)😷

@pripyatamusementpark Who can afford to have one.