Peak World Population

[macdon02]

https://youtu.be/SYZPTaV-RcQ https://youtu.be/SYZPTaV-RcQ

A couple Canadian authors talking the peak in world population and how we won't have billions starving anytime soon, just the opposite

[15444]

As long as they keep eating beef, I don't care how many there are. And once I am dead, I don't care how few there are.

[jazz]

Quote on India and China - They are electing to have abortions until they get boys.

hence 60M more men than women in China,same thing in India. Bunch of sexually frustrated little emperors.

Another important quote, China will get old before it gets rich.

[WiltonRanch]

I bought a book about this. Still barely started it. Contrary to the UN bs we were fed for years the world pop will peak at 9 billion and decline in the next 50 years. Aside from sub Saharan Africa whom is coming into its own, the rest of the world is urbanizing. More of the world population lives in an urban setting than rural which is unprecedented. Urban populations do not reproduce like rural ones. Higher standard of living go hand in hand with discouraging multiple children per household.

[jazz]

There was a quick sentence or two in the interview, way in, gone over fast but it was the scariest thing you could imagine.

basically it said the countries that we have tradionally got our immigrants from, India, SE Asia, China, Philipines are now starting to prosper and no longer want their young people moving abroad. They want their best and brightest at home so Canada will struggle to attract that group.

So guess where our immigrants will come from if that channel is blocked. Lets just say best and brightest wont be a requirement anymore.

Jesus why not just pay women in Canada $50k to have a 3rd kid.

[FarmJunkie]

They are just not white ones

[macdon02]

There was a quick sentence or two in the interview, way in, gone over fast but it was the scariest thing you could imagine.

basically it said the countries that we have tradionally got our immigrants from, India, SE Asia, China, Philipines are now starting to prosper and no longer want their young people moving abroad. They want their best and brightest at home so Canada will struggle to attract that group.

So guess where our immigrants will come from if that channel is blocked. Lets just say best and brightest wont be a requirement anymore.

Jesus why not just pay women in Canada $50k to have a 3rd kid.

Well now that's an interesting starting point in the price for life. Someone would lose their mind hearing it. Close all the senior homes and let the kids take care of the old bastards. It'll be awkward the first go round but if these pension funds go pop it is gonna happen regardless. I still can't over the rally in price at Sun Communities. Old folks ditching the house and buying a camper in a trailerpark to keep the kids living high on the hog. There's gonna be a metric shit ton of old people and it's a sector to buy into, maybe it'll fund the retirement idk. Consumerism is absolutely gonna die. Old people don't spend. Maybe reinvent the Walker or wheel chair. Heck they don't even eat half what a teenager does. Have we reached peak growth? If China and India are on the bell curve and even Kenya has lost a full child in a decade, and if that's indicative of Africa in the whole? It's all downhill from here. China could have the population of the US by 2100 these guys are saying is a reasonable estimate. That 1 child policy absolutely doomed them.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

To all of the advocates of government solving all of our problems, consider these two excellent examples.

1)China's one child policy, enacted at almost exactly the wrong time, and reversed after it was already too late. Always out of sync with the cycles, responding retroactively, to a problem that is already no longer a problem(if it ever was), with a solution worse than the problem.
2)UN being perennially wrong on population growth, this has been common knowledge for decades, yet it has never stopped them from using it to justify all manner of programs and attempted controls.

It makes one wonder what other prognostications the UN might be completely wrong about, and governments might be completely out of phase in attempting to solve? Chuck, can you guess?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This population trend has concerned me for a long time. But the good news to come from it is that the reason people are having less children is because they are becoming more affluent. People in abject poverty are not our best customers, as an exporting nation. People with 2 SUV's or trucks in the driveway of their detached suburban home, with cats and dogs and horses that need to be fed, and who eat steak instead of rice, are a much more promising market, and vastly larger.

So long as we don't screw it up, and subject ourselves to financial armageddon simply because we can't figure out how to keep the growth model going, and servicing the debt without increased population. Or worse yet, sacrificing our economies in the name of ending plant food.

Betting against human ingenuity has been a losing bet almost forever, so I have no doubt that in an era with surplus of virtually every resource, and increasingly lower labor requirements to extract, process, transport and manufacture with those resources, I think we can handle this one, eventually... All of our limits to growth right now are on paper. Which is unique in all of history.