“The latest research by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the fertility rate was 1.48 babies per woman in 2024, down from 2023 figures.”
“Housing affordability, economic security, gender inequality and climate change were the four big things that were not being earnestly tackled by government, Dr Allen said.”
No shit.
The capitalism will continue until morale improves
They went so far down the wage slave route that we can’t even afford to produce more children/wage slaves. It really is a mental illness amount of greed and we have to start treating it that way.
Agreed that 80% of voters have something wrong in the head but here we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
So this is goos news. On a planet that should have around 100-500 milluon at most
Malthusians fuck off
So you never actually read Malthus ?
That aside, better with 20 billion ? 100 billion? Presumably you have a line where u think " mmmm maybe too many people " So what informs that number for you, assuming some number less than 100 billion ?
My thoughts are we should let science inform us rather then them random feelings amd also allow other species to exist. But go right ahead, tell is why some random number is best ?
EO Wilson oponed 250 Million was about all the planet could support with a resource intensive lifestyle.
A few months ago John Quiggin posted this and I find his argument pretty compelling
Are pronatalists living on the same planet?
But even in this extreme case, world population in 2100 only falls to 6 billion, the same as in 2000. I was around at the time, and did not feel as if there were too few people about.
What about the need for workers? One unsatisfactory feature of long-running projections like this is the use of outdated statistical concepts such as the “dependency ratio”, that is, the ratio of people aged 15-64 to everyone else. That made sense 50 years ago, when this range represented the period between leaving school and retiring in most industrial societies. But these days (and it will be even more so in 2100) education continues well past 20 and retirement is often deferred to 70 or more. A look at the age group 25-69 shows that it is going to remain more or less stable in absolute numbers declining only marginally relative to the growing population
Also followed up with this
