Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Why Birthrates are Cratering Globally with Dr. Alice Evans" video.

  1. Now conservatives have changed the tune and they praise the teen birth rate 😂
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  2. ​ @complexaltruist  to a more sustainable level. Population growth during 19-20 centuries was anomalous too. In 1800 there were less than a billion people. No population naturally grows so fast. Now we need a compensation period for that growth
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  3. No, they are higher there, but still declining. For example birth rate in Kenya declined from 8 kids to less than 4
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  4. Climate mitigation needs more workers? When you have less people, overall consumption of the population is smaller, and consumption is a root cause of all negative influence on environment. Climate change is only part of a larger ecological problem called overshoot. We literally take more from Earth than it can replenish. Causes of it are mostly inequality and overconsumption, but stopping population growth would help to solve it also
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  5. No, word "fertility" in demographics means a different thing than in biology and medicine. You are the one conflating two definitions of the word. Demographics is its own discipline, it has its own terminology.
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  6. Current population in every country, except Ireland and 2-3 tiny island nations is 3-10 times higher than it was in 19th century and all the millennia before it. So why do we need more birth rates??? The current birth rate decline may be an anomaly, but very fast population growth from 19th century to today was and is and anomaly too!
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  7. ​ @VictorEnnb  you can't compare countries which have never gone through demographic transition with the ones who have gone through. Different factors play in those cases. In many "poor countries with high fertility" birth rates still declined, they just declined from say, 8 to 4 so far, because they started declining more recently. In Europe birth rates started declining as early as late 19th century, that is why they have declined so low. Plus many poor countries you mentioned have high child mortality and subsistence agricultural economy. Subsistence economy is the only one in which children are mostly workers, not an economic drain, so people have more kids to survive
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  8. They won't increase much, countries which have such measures have only a bit higher birth rates. The reality is if the economy is generally capitalist, no measures can increase birth rate. Plus we don't need high birth rates. Endless economic growth and population growth is a ponzi scheme which will fall sooner or later
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  9. ​ @patatequiroule  many peasant marriages were arranged by the families too. Marriage and kids were a way of survival
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  10. The best thing that can happen is people having less kids. Don't bring new people into such a messed up world. I pity everyone who is born nowadays 😢
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