Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "It's Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore." video.

As long as we manage to get to the point where the population is starting to drop before climate change is so bad as to be irrepairable, that should improve. The efficiency programs in terms of things like fuel efficiency and power consumption will still exist even as the population starts to drop. And with there being fewer people, that will likely compound to put things back the way they should be in a few generations afterwards. It's really the damage between now and then that's the real problem.
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That's really not a problem, the rate of population growth has slowed, unless something changes, the population will start to drop a bit. With the population dropping, the total amount of housing will also start to drop. The interest in having larger yards alone will probably discourage everybody from clumping into a handful of megacities. I also doubt that the payments would cover more than 3 or 4 children and relatively few parents even want to have more than that many children anyways. Most of the families that are larger than that are that size because that's the number they needed to both ensure that any of the children survived and that they would be capable of providing care in old age.
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@danrend4986 True, and the main part of the population problem had been China and India. The US's population increase has mostly been the result of immigration for pretty much the entirety of our existence. Developing nations growth rates are nearly entirely something that you can put down to a combination in improvements in life expectancy and lack of adequate social safety net to ensure support in old age. It turns out that women don't like being treated like gumball machines popping out kid after kid after kid, and they'll naturally want to stop somewhere before 4 kids with most wanting a max of 2 or 3.
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Apart from degenerate religions that encouraged having irresponsible numbers of children in order to compete with other religions, people never really wanted to have the number of children in some of those large families. That's why bs like making it a sin to waste sperm and the like were created, and effective birth control measures are taboo in some quarters. Most likely, we'll eventually return to a point where most families are having 2-3 kids tops and the population drops back down to something significantly lower. Realistically, there's not any inherent reason why there needs to be more than a billion people on the planet. At that population size, there'd be no meaningful risk of extinction and the foot print would be small enough not to do much permanent damage to the environment. It would take a while to reach that point, but there'd be no need for genocide or ethnic cleansing to get there either as a billion is still a large enough number to have all the currently existing cultures represented.
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Keep in mind that if people keep not having enough kids to keep up the population, eventually the price of real estate will drop to something pretty reasonable as we don't need the current number of people to provide all the things that people need to thrive. The thing that worries me though is that if the drop is too fast, that can cause it's own set of problems.
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