DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

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Strong rec lentil_soup · 2017-06 · on “The Old Are Eating the Young”

This video seems relevant: [this video] According to Hans Rosling we've reached "peak child", meaning we're almost at 2 children per woman globally. This means population will continue to grow for a few years as globally there are more children than adults but will stabilize after that around the ~11 billion mark. And as long as we stay at that "peak child" number we won't go any further. I really recommend his videos if you haven't seen them.

Strong rec jdietrich · 2017-11 · on “India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents”

Until the modern era, the global birth rate was fairly constant at about six per woman. The population growth we've experienced over the last century is mostly to do with child survival. Before 1900, the child mortality rate in India was over 50%. If you need children to care for you in old age and expect most of your children to die, you're likely to have a lot of them. When child survival improved, attitudes changed. Parents no longer want three or four children to work on the family farm, they want one or two children to become doctors or engineers. Economic development and the availability of reliable contraception have made that aspiration practical. If you're interested in the topic, I

Strong rec Isinlor · 2019-09 · on “Greta Thunberg: 'How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood'”

Because there is no world overpopulation. People talk about overpopulation since ancient times. [LINK] Currently standard of living are growing almost all over the world and human population is predicted to pick and stabilize at around 11 billion. I really recommend "DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population" [this video] What's also interesting in his video is the fact that people tend to be very misinformed about state of the world affairs. E.g. when asked questions about certain statistics, they do worse than random. And the better educated you are the more misinformed you may be.

Strong rec Isinlor · 2019-11 · on “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency”

The issue here is mostly with the countries in extreme poverty. Countries with average fertility rate of 3 and higher. Women in countries with the highest fertility index often do not control when they get pregnant. Having 6 and more children is rarely effect of conscious family planning. It's effect of lack of education, lack of access to contraception, forced sex in marriage etc. Sometimes having many children is an insurance policy in case some children will die before they reach productive age. We really should be addressing this type of issues underlying uncontrolled population growth. People should be able to choose when they want to have children, how many children they want, they sho

Recommends tomjen3 · 2017-02 · on “Who are you calling Malthusian?”

In that case don't worry: [this video] Also consider that the carrying capacity of the world isn't fixed, but depends on how good our technology is (with a potential theoretical upper limit). Well tech is improved by people working on and inventing better technology, right? So you get better technology with more people - and with that you can have more people working on better technology. The biggest mistake, and the one all Malthusians made, is to forget that humans are, on average, net produces not net consumers.

Recommends lugg · 2018-02 · on “When will the world reach 'peak child'?”

He has a lot of good videos out there but this is the one specifically covering Africa / population predictions and the misconceptions / dated knowledge. [this video]

Recommends throw0101a · 2019-04 · on “The global population pyramid”

There's a good presentation by Hans Rosling about why population will peak at 11B (stick with until 26m): * [this video] Further on he explains why we may not have to worry about resource use given growing prosperity: * [this video]

Recommends Carlee · 2019-05 · on “CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history”

You should check out Hans Rosling's lectures [1]. Statistics points towards the fact that as people become more wealthy, they have less children. It should stagnate around 11 million people by most models. [1] [this video]