(12-13-2024, 02:16 AM)Karl12 Wrote: Don't like linking to the UK propagandist site 'Sky News' but apparently the fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen to the lowest levels since records began in 1938.
Absolutely no mention of covert birth control in vaccines or phthalates and Bisphenol A - just some wishy washy free association about cost of living and other social factors.
People would rather have pets? Several were converted to homosexuality by subversive behavioral sink and gay lasers?
Not to worry though, while Europe, North America, Austrailia, Japan, South Korea, and especially China will see declines; there will be massive population booms in Congo, Tanzania, Sudan, Niger, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Malawi, Uganda, and Pakistan!
In 2100 the biggest cities will be; Lagos, Kinshasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mumbai, Delhi, Khartoum, Niamey, and Dhaka. I guess it will be a battle for the most polluted river? Largest predominantly muslim slum?
The mean and politically incorrect truth is there is way less responsibility involved in developing world reproduction. There is almost no birth control, way more expectation and even a demand to procreate. And to do so while having no say in much of anything else.
Like in Afghanistan, which has the highest infant mortality rate in the world at 10.1%, yet stand at 15th in the world at 4.52 children per woman. Niger is tops at 6.7 per woman with a 6% mortality rate, with 5.2 children per in Nigeria.
To put that in perspective, the rate in the UK is 1.57 and 1.62 in the USA. EU is 1.42 and Japan 1.26.
There is almost no pressure or expectation in the 1st world for women to reproduce. It's part of the equality thing. There are also far higher standards for what environment is appropriate to bring a child into, and large financial considerations. Those simply don't exist in Niger.
That's going to be to the population story. I swear it's an inherently racist version of a movie I saw...