Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "The World Population Crisis NO ONE Sees Coming" video.

I think it's more about population readjustment then collapse, I mean seriously, the human population has exploded since after the second world war, that was never sustainable long term, at least not on Earth and sooner or later, we were going to need to slow that down or even reverse it, but eventually, that will settle down and stabilise, as for when that happens, who can say, but I don't see it happening for the next few decades. The real problem that could become a major problem is that we've had explosive population growth over the last few decades and we can't afford to have the same thing in reverse, boom and bust so to speak, as that would cause economic chaos around the world, maybe even a major war. The pattern I tend to find with population growth is that it's a major issue for developed countries, the EU, the US and so on, after all, if we take immigration out of it and the natural birth rates from immigrants, the population decline would likely be much worse in the US and EU as a lot of the population growth is from immigrants moving in and they are a lot more likely to have more kids than the natives. Some countries are having a worse time of this because they don't allow more immigration, but in some countries like Japan for instance, reversing the population is probably not a bad thing long term because the country is too populated whiles not having enough room to have a good quality of living, that's not an issue for the EU or the US, there's a lot of land that's still free, but far less people seem to want to have kids now, probably because it's too expensive, takes too much time that's jobs end up taking up, and when you throw in all the toys and things we can do in life today, it's no surprise that far fewer of us want to have kids now. Personally, I think the cost of living and lack of time that's the real factor that fewer of us are having kids, government support can only go so far in reversing that, giving people more time free from jobs whiles having government support would probably have the biggest impact in reversing this trend, but for me, we've got too many things we want to do in life, not enough time to do it, that for me is why a lot of us don't want kids, and that will likely get worse going forward as we have a lot more options to do more things, but there is a silver lining, A.I. and robotics is very likely going to put most of us out of a job, if that happens, the structure of society will have to change to support that, basically, a lot more people could end up finding they have a lot more time to do more in life without being pressured by job security and money, that could encourage more people to have more kids. Oh and one other factor, religion, that seems to have an impact on population growth, usually when a country has more religion, they have more population growth, not always as we are seeing in Eastern Europe, but many time it's the case, people in the developed world care far less about religion now.
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