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I read recently that the decline in population will have a dramatic effect on the economy, housing prices will drop, those that have children will be in large part from the Judaeo-Christian community. The Earth will start to decline in population by 2060 with a dramatic drop in population by 2100.
Population decline? I've never heard that before. You may be referring to the rate of population increase, which is declining. But since 1952 the world population has tripled, and it continues to increase at an alarming rate. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Population decline? I've never heard that before. You may be referring to the rate of population increase, which is declining. But since 1952 the world population has tripled, and it continues to increase at an alarming rate. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
To keep up with the current number of people every woman has to have 2.1 children. The list of nations that are below the 2.1 growth rate continues to grow. While the UN continues to say that the Earth will have over 10 billion people by 2100, many researchers have looked at the UN numbers and questioned them. While schools continue to teach that the world has a population problem, the reality is that as Nations have become educated, birth rates decline. On top of that many Nations have encouraged limiting the amount of children a family can have.
Is NOT having 10B people on Earth by 2100 a terrible thing, though? Obviously, the population dropping too drastically can have some negative impacts but I'm with those who think there are too many people on this planet already, and I also think we're not taking care of it nearly as well as we could. I would love to see all nations develop and find ways to better take care of the planet and even use birth control; that would be ideal imo. Ideal but sadly probably unlikely, at least for the next couple of generations.
Pollution and sanitation in many third world countries is often just horrible; there are rivers and bays full of trash and people using the bathroom out in the streets or openly on beaches. If anyone is conscious of population control/too many people on Earth, it should be people in these types of areas before anyone else but unfortunately the eduction and resources often just aren't there.
On the other hand, I have four daughters. I won't need nursing home insurance. I'm raising my owned skilled nursing facility.
I’m eating my heart out, I have two sons that I’d die for, they could have a kidney each, my liver, bone marrow, my heart if one of them needed it, but if I got sick, they’d say, “Jeez, bummer dad, let’s Google nursing homes, have you got any money?”
My brother-in-law, two daughters, has no worries at all, if his wife is out of town, his girls fight over who can fix dad his favourite dinner.
My ace in the hole is my granddaughter, but her dad, my youngest, would probably say, “Grandpa’s too proud to take any help, pass daddy the remote sweetheart.”
I'm so thankful I have 3 children. They are adults now. Yes, it was difficult at times but definitively worth it. It made me a more selfless person and the rewards have been great. I love to see them give back to society and be a positive force in the world. Now, they are thinking of marrying and looking to start families of their own. I have a relative that chose not to have kids and she's 60 now. She struggles with loneliness and depression and spends a lot of her time criticizing our kids and those of us that decided to have them. If you chose NOT to have kids be confident of your choice. Don't be jealous and bitter of others who chose to have them. My co-worker was 62 and cried at work more then once about not having children and that there wasn't anyone to look after her in her old age. She'd watch 'Leave it to Beaver' before work. I felt sad for her.
I'm so thankful I have 3 children. They are adults now. Yes, it was difficult at times but definitively worth it. It made me a more selfless person and the rewards have been great. I love to see them give back to society and be a positive force in the world. Now, they are thinking of marrying and looking to start families of their own. I have a relative that chose not to have kids and she's 60 now. She struggles with loneliness and depression and spends a lot of her time criticizing our kids and those of us that decided to have them. If you chose NOT to have kids be confident of your choice. Don't be jealous and bitter of others who chose to have them. My co-worker was 62 and cried at work more then once about not having children and that there wasn't anyone to look after her in her old age. She'd watch 'Leave it to Beaver' before work. I felt sad for her.
I don't expect my daughter to "look after me" in my old age. I mean, if I become incapacitated, she will have to figure out where to stash me or whatever, but it's not as if I expect her to move me into her home and wipe my ass.
My own mother is close to 91, but I don't talk to her every day, and she doesn't expect me to. She always told us to just live our lives and not worry about her.
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