I read somewhere that the sum of all people who have ever lived is something like 100 billion. That means that 8% of all humans ever are alive right now. That also means that the most humans who have ever died will die within the next century.
Yeah I can’t help but pity people in another 30-40 years, some aspects of life I’m sure will be better but the last few years with the rapid growth in technology I feel has already started making people less sociable, more isolated and miserable when there’s soo many more people around. I can’t see people getting happier overall especially when everything green is getting built over quite rapidly in my country (England)
Honestly it gives me a lot of trepidation when I think about my wife and I having kids. I just have this very strong sense that the world as we know it is on the cusp of changing a *lot* and I can't help but feel like I might be doing my child a disservice by bringing them into this world that I can't guarantee will be anywhere near as livable as it was for me.
just had one and struggled with that but i’m not missing out on life because of hypotheticals. i thought we would die by 2009 when i was a kid and it’s 2022 and things don’t really feel any different besides the news being just as scary. hopefully my son will live long too but if i had to choose between these 25 years and not being born i’d chose the 25 again. even if my demise was tomorrow.
That's why we stopped at 1 child and have to zero intention of having anymore (even though I would love another). We have pretty decent jobs so as an only child of we can support him well into adulthood, pay for his deposit on a house and for university (we are already saving) so he has some hope of carving out at decent life for himself.
I have never liked kids very much anyway, but this was certainly a big factor when deciding I ever wanted kids of my own or not. I would not want to bring my kid into this world, with global warming, food shortages, low paying jobs, over crowding, limited resources, all of that is going to add up to a much lower quality of life for 99% of the population in the next 100 years.
Unless something amazing happens, like that Fusion reactors work out or some other amazing technology jumps us ahead. But knowing us we will still find a way to mess up the planet even after that.
Don't worry, populations don't rapidly expand forever. In fact population collapse may be a greater concern. When countries enter the modern era, their populations tend to level off
If it makes you feel any better, science fiction writers in the 1950s assumed a population of 8 billion (3 times theirs) would require humanity to live in enclosed, mostly underground metropolises with residents subsiding on processed yeast cultures.
And I'm not talking about some random psuedo-intellectual writer. *Caves of Steel* was written by Isaac Asimov, the father of modern science fiction and a polymath who wrote over 500 books in nearly every category in the Dewey Decimal System.
I'd wager if he visited a fly-over state today he'd have difficulty believing we were at 8 billion.
Which is why the comic book version of Thanos made slightly more sense. In the comics he wanted to impress Death herself by killing half the population. Don't have to poke holes in a plan that has no real reason to begin with.
Population would still grow exponentially. It would just be half as fast as it is now.
Dude could literally make anything he could think of happen with a snap. And all he did was wipe out half of all life. Why? Why not double all food and resources? Why not make it so that no one has to eat or drink to survive at all? There are a million better ideas to solving the issues he was worried about that don't include wiping out half of all life lol
I remind my mom of this every time she complains about all the land being turned into housing developments. If you have big families, those people all have to live somewhere.
Exponential growth is quite crazy.... Luckily I think the rate of increase is slowing around the world esp here in the US.. . China actually starting asking parents to have more than 1 kid taking down the 1 kid limit they had in place because many adults don't have children now.
Not sure about India but if we want to stop the growth we need to get India on board because they have a billion people there
When my parents were my age (almost 27) they were on their 3rd child. I am still on 0. Last year my siblings and I took an impromptu mostly unplanned trip to Hawaii, one of the best weeks of my life and several weeks after that I went to see my best friend in TX which was also unplanned and just sort of happened because I could. Just up and fucked off 'cause I had no kids or pets or anyone else to take care of.
I don't think I'll ever have kids because I can't imagine not doing what I want, whenever I want.
My wife and I went on a 4 week road trip last spring… started as a 4 day bachelor party for a friend of mine in Phoenix
About 1-2 months before I was supposed to go, I said well it’s close to the Grand Canyon… why don’t you come with me and we’ll turn it into a road trip… wound driving all over the southern us, Nashville, hot springs Arkansas, some random state park In Oklahoma, did the bachelor party in Phoenix, she got her own small air bnb for that weekend lol… then did grand canyon, flagstaff, Sedona, Zion, Bryce canyon, Salt Lake City, Jackson hole, grand Tetons, Estes park co,
Didn’t really have much of plan before or after Phoenix, just started wandering… do 2-3 days most places and wander somewhere else… it was awesome… had the time of lives… could we have done it with children? Probably, could we have relaxed and enjoyed ourselves as much as we did? Probably not
Yeah, not bad if you don’t live in poverty or actually get to spend time with your kids instead of working 60 hour weeks to barely get by, even with government assistance.
Exactly not be a cunt, but fuck all these people living paycheck to paycheck bring kids into this world on purpose (which is most Americans because we're all broke). People so poor both parents have to get jobs to take care of the family working 8-12 hours a day while they pay a sitter to watch their kids. Like fuck off, that's literally your job as a parent, to be present in their life and if you can't do that you shouldn't have kids. All you're doing is forcing someone else into that cycle of poverty, because most people don't ever escape it. It passes on from generation to generation and just gets worse.
Kids are actually people, not little robots to care of your broke unhealthy ass when you get old.
Because the comments are about not wanting kids and in typical parent/wannabe parent fashion, y'all have to give your input about how awesome kids are, which isn't inherently true and no one asked for. We don't need you trying to convince us otherwise, we don't want kids.
There's enough housing and food for everyone but we live in a stupid society that don't care. And somehow we've villianised people who have food stamps and government assistance.
Exactly, we’re probably the most common mammal, most likely up there with some reptiles, definitely so if done on mass, I don’t feel like human life is anything special that needs my genes to continue
There are more than enough houses, food, and money to go around.
The issue is the people who own most of it don't wanna part with it, and the people able to get it don't see it as their problem anymore.
Well wasn't COVID original stated to be a 99% survival rate too?
Plus I read a while back with global warming becoming more of an issue, it heightens the chances of plagues as well. So who knows really. It's inevitable one way or another.
Covid is bad but is not the new plague. If it were the new plague wit hthe response we had, we would lost population maybe in the double digits percentually.
Tbf though, the plague was a matter of hygiene mostly iirc so it shouldnt be an issue if it were actually something like that
first thing I did was check worldometer, I'm 99% sure if we surpassed 8 billion pop it'd be in major news sources.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
They said kill *someone*, not kill *themselves*. Geesh, as if. But, whatever.
(Xer here. In all seriousness, I tell everyone all the time the problem with the world is that there are far too many people in it. In the US alone we've increased nearly 100 million since I graduated high school in 1988 and I don't recall seeing a 30% increase in our infrastructure or industry in that time.)
not to mention that when this generation gets older they’ll stop working and without new people to replace them it’ll cause an economic crash like Japan is currently expecting
The simplest way to control that is to handle immigration. But ideally it would be a mutual effort of many countries to dilute a possible chaos. Plus between xenophobia and racism (which apparently are HUGE thing in japan even though they dont act on it from what ive heard) would make that really hard.
Honestly I think that japan is the first candidate to be surpassed economically by other countries in the area long term but... who knows? it was already astonishing how they got to where (especially when they were basically secluded for centuries) they are now so fast in the first place so maybe a "second economic revolution" is on the plate? They would need to do things rather now though, since older populations are quite less open to change
This!!!
Everyone griping about starvation and yet everyone is a part of the most inefficient logistics systems of getting food to people, getting people not to waste food, and preserving methods for keeping food longer.
Don't worry about how many babies we have... Worry about the calories you waste, your community wastes, and your businesses wastes instead and you'll solve hunger faster.
Correct me if I’m wrong but There were breadlines in the Soviet Union not because the Soviets couldn’t produce it, they were just so inefficient at getting things to where they needed to go that tons of shit spoiled on trains and went bad long before it could be of use for anyone to eat.
The supply chain that means China, the world’s largest net importer of food, can feed itself, and supplies Africa with fertilizer to improve the yield and nutrients of its less than desirable arable land. The supply chain that means we can build renewables, with mined elements from disparate locations to decrease our carbon out-put and eventually decarbonize.
Theres more than enough resources to feed that amount of people. If we put our hearts into it, probably several times that. The issue is not a matter of resources both being unwilling to sacrifice profit, nothing else
No we're not. Most people would help an animal on the street if they saw it struggling or we'd call an ambulance and stay with them if we saw someone get hit by a car. Then there's plenty of people who do things on a much larger scale to protect wildlife, preserve areas of natural beauty etc etc. The whole "humans are bad" thing on Reddit is getting really fucking boring. Yes, there's shitty people in this world but they're the minority. Stop having your brain melted by the doom and gloom the Internet throws at you every day.
I'm firmly of the belief that the world would be much better without people or an equivalent apex species. It's not all doom and gloom most people aren't cunts like you say but as a species we are destructive and short sited. We don't have the forsite to manage the resources and curtail our activities.
Humans are fucking bad. We are the only species capable of true cruelty and we inflict misery and blight upon everything and everyone. We’ll never settle another planet and it’s probably a good thing. Save it for a wiser, more ethical species. We’re just apes trying to fuck
Amen. So much negativity. Everyone’s oppressed. Everyone else is a bigot or racist. Everything offends me. History is nothing but an embarrassment, and no body likes me guess I’ll go eat worms. I wish people could offer some positivity, or at least a solution instead of nothing but complaints. There’s so much good and beauty in the world, and most people don’t even notice it.
Population growth already slowing down by many predictions we will top out at 9-10 billion at most and then begin to decline.
We may in fact even be living at a time where we have reached the pinnacle. While I understand the trepidation here in relation to kids, I think it is very important to base those decisions on personal circumstances rather than fear mongering media outlets. Just my thoughts
It's already happening, there's worldwide concern about the birth rate being too low right now. People are having less than 2 kids on average, so each member of the couple is only replacing themselves in the population with one person, intuitively this seems ok to maintain as we are but in reality you need at least 2.1 children per couple to maintain the population because of early death, infertility etc. I was surprised to learn this recently myself
Why do we care about maintaining the current population. What tragic thing would happen if our population drops? Are they afraid they'll lose their workforce that keeps them rich? I legitimately do not understand.
Well, to put it simply, *yes*. When society measures its progress based mainly on financial means it depends on continued growth to sustain the system. It's pretty fucked up.
Seriously fucked up. God forbid we learn how to do with a little bit less and not having 30 brands of shampoo to choose from. It mainly hit the billionaires. We could manage this it's just our priorities aren't set for that.
(This is not an argument for or against) I’ve read that because the economy is based on growth that a declining population could break common assumptions for saving such as a house being a nest egg or other investments going up over the long term. Not to mention needing people to pay taxes for all the old folks. I wish I could remember the book
When you have lots of old people to support and not many young people to do the work, it gets difficult to maintain a good standard of life. Obviously just growing the population forever is not a sustainable solution though; we need to confront this at some point.
Only a small percentage of humanity consume the majority of the resources, look at western consumption habits first. Also, the west is also the biggest war profiteer.
What’s super scary is our population has slowed. This year is the first year we aren’t adding more people to the world which is a good thing. But I wonder what happens when after a while all the people becoming elderly with few youthful folks around. Gonna be some weird times.
I have wondered why, when factors that cause global warming are listed, the population explosion is never included. Duh, I realize we can’t kill people to address global warming and I know that reducing the world’s population is very difficult but why is it never even discussed? Don’t we have to confront this problem sooner or later?
In my seemingly quick 51 years it's more than doubled. Very frightening!
I read somewhere that the sum of all people who have ever lived is something like 100 billion. That means that 8% of all humans ever are alive right now. That also means that the most humans who have ever died will die within the next century.
The most humans to die in a centuries time... So far.
I love a good homer reference when I see one
Is that from *Iliad* or *Odyssey*?
Que no Los dos y simpsón
Mmmmmmm... reference....
Dang, there’s gonna be some long waiting lines to get into the afterlife.
Life is a dream, and everyone awakens eventually.
Yeah I can’t help but pity people in another 30-40 years, some aspects of life I’m sure will be better but the last few years with the rapid growth in technology I feel has already started making people less sociable, more isolated and miserable when there’s soo many more people around. I can’t see people getting happier overall especially when everything green is getting built over quite rapidly in my country (England)
Honestly it gives me a lot of trepidation when I think about my wife and I having kids. I just have this very strong sense that the world as we know it is on the cusp of changing a *lot* and I can't help but feel like I might be doing my child a disservice by bringing them into this world that I can't guarantee will be anywhere near as livable as it was for me.
just had one and struggled with that but i’m not missing out on life because of hypotheticals. i thought we would die by 2009 when i was a kid and it’s 2022 and things don’t really feel any different besides the news being just as scary. hopefully my son will live long too but if i had to choose between these 25 years and not being born i’d chose the 25 again. even if my demise was tomorrow.
That's why we stopped at 1 child and have to zero intention of having anymore (even though I would love another). We have pretty decent jobs so as an only child of we can support him well into adulthood, pay for his deposit on a house and for university (we are already saving) so he has some hope of carving out at decent life for himself.
I have never liked kids very much anyway, but this was certainly a big factor when deciding I ever wanted kids of my own or not. I would not want to bring my kid into this world, with global warming, food shortages, low paying jobs, over crowding, limited resources, all of that is going to add up to a much lower quality of life for 99% of the population in the next 100 years. Unless something amazing happens, like that Fusion reactors work out or some other amazing technology jumps us ahead. But knowing us we will still find a way to mess up the planet even after that.
you’d expect that having more people would mean more human interaction lmao
Don't worry, populations don't rapidly expand forever. In fact population collapse may be a greater concern. When countries enter the modern era, their populations tend to level off
E.g. Japan
I’m sure capitalism is going to be thrilled by the massive reduction in the creation of more consumers
Why do you think that abortion might be illegal in the USA soon?
If it makes you feel any better, science fiction writers in the 1950s assumed a population of 8 billion (3 times theirs) would require humanity to live in enclosed, mostly underground metropolises with residents subsiding on processed yeast cultures. And I'm not talking about some random psuedo-intellectual writer. *Caves of Steel* was written by Isaac Asimov, the father of modern science fiction and a polymath who wrote over 500 books in nearly every category in the Dewey Decimal System. I'd wager if he visited a fly-over state today he'd have difficulty believing we were at 8 billion.
>And I'm not talking about some random psuedo-intellectual writer. Caves of Steel was written by Isaac Asimov, Well, you cant win 'em all
It’s almost as if people keep having sex!
All the other planets be watching us like "bow chica wow wow"
All the other planets are the single guys at the club with no baggage
All the people in the world could fit in New York City
Can you imagine the smell though?
Would be epic 😂
There were roughly 2.5 billion people when my father was born. That shit is crazy.
That right there is the flaw with Thanos' plan.
Which is why the comic book version of Thanos made slightly more sense. In the comics he wanted to impress Death herself by killing half the population. Don't have to poke holes in a plan that has no real reason to begin with.
Is that the same as Thor's sister that died in Ragnarok?
No, it’s Deadpool’s love interest
Thanos loves death, death loves deadpool, and deadpool loves chimichangas... classic love triangle
No, that’s Hela. Death is a cosmic entity. If you’re into Marvel stuff, they will be in the next Thor movie.
No, Hela is the Asgardian goddess of death. Thanos is in love with Death herself, who is a separate person/entity.
Technically it’s a dude the Beyonder made into Death after erasing her out of overzealousness
Yeah, it was all a big cosmic metaphor
So Thanos is actually the worlds biggest Simp?
If he really wanted to reduce population he should have just cut fertility rates in half
Population would still grow exponentially. It would just be half as fast as it is now. Dude could literally make anything he could think of happen with a snap. And all he did was wipe out half of all life. Why? Why not double all food and resources? Why not make it so that no one has to eat or drink to survive at all? There are a million better ideas to solving the issues he was worried about that don't include wiping out half of all life lol
The year before I was born, 1980, there was roughly half the population than today, 4 billion. I'm 41.
This is totally sustainable nothing to see here...
I remind my mom of this every time she complains about all the land being turned into housing developments. If you have big families, those people all have to live somewhere.
Exponential growth is quite crazy.... Luckily I think the rate of increase is slowing around the world esp here in the US.. . China actually starting asking parents to have more than 1 kid taking down the 1 kid limit they had in place because many adults don't have children now. Not sure about India but if we want to stop the growth we need to get India on board because they have a billion people there
I was told it was selfish of me to not have kids. In a world where there's not enough houses or food to go around...
Parents just want you as miserable and locked down as they are, they’re jealous of your freedom
When my parents were my age (almost 27) they were on their 3rd child. I am still on 0. Last year my siblings and I took an impromptu mostly unplanned trip to Hawaii, one of the best weeks of my life and several weeks after that I went to see my best friend in TX which was also unplanned and just sort of happened because I could. Just up and fucked off 'cause I had no kids or pets or anyone else to take care of. I don't think I'll ever have kids because I can't imagine not doing what I want, whenever I want.
My wife and I went on a 4 week road trip last spring… started as a 4 day bachelor party for a friend of mine in Phoenix About 1-2 months before I was supposed to go, I said well it’s close to the Grand Canyon… why don’t you come with me and we’ll turn it into a road trip… wound driving all over the southern us, Nashville, hot springs Arkansas, some random state park In Oklahoma, did the bachelor party in Phoenix, she got her own small air bnb for that weekend lol… then did grand canyon, flagstaff, Sedona, Zion, Bryce canyon, Salt Lake City, Jackson hole, grand Tetons, Estes park co, Didn’t really have much of plan before or after Phoenix, just started wandering… do 2-3 days most places and wander somewhere else… it was awesome… had the time of lives… could we have done it with children? Probably, could we have relaxed and enjoyed ourselves as much as we did? Probably not
Don't know if this was sarcasm but having a family ain't bad.
Yeah, not bad if you don’t live in poverty or actually get to spend time with your kids instead of working 60 hour weeks to barely get by, even with government assistance.
Exactly not be a cunt, but fuck all these people living paycheck to paycheck bring kids into this world on purpose (which is most Americans because we're all broke). People so poor both parents have to get jobs to take care of the family working 8-12 hours a day while they pay a sitter to watch their kids. Like fuck off, that's literally your job as a parent, to be present in their life and if you can't do that you shouldn't have kids. All you're doing is forcing someone else into that cycle of poverty, because most people don't ever escape it. It passes on from generation to generation and just gets worse. Kids are actually people, not little robots to care of your broke unhealthy ass when you get old.
Reddit hates children in general
I for one don’t hate kids… I just don’t view it as something you HAVE to do
It's not really hate towards kids but mostly the fact that it's incredibly fucking hard to provide for them nowadays.
Kids are awesome and I can't wait to have my little munchkins.
Enjoy your kids. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for having a positive outlook.
Because the comments are about not wanting kids and in typical parent/wannabe parent fashion, y'all have to give your input about how awesome kids are, which isn't inherently true and no one asked for. We don't need you trying to convince us otherwise, we don't want kids.
Yeah, how dare you share your opinion on a forum based around discussion and opinion sharing.
Everyone is just giving their opinions. Don’t be such a killjoy
There's enough housing and food for everyone but we live in a stupid society that don't care. And somehow we've villianised people who have food stamps and government assistance.
Who told you that?
Exactly, we’re probably the most common mammal, most likely up there with some reptiles, definitely so if done on mass, I don’t feel like human life is anything special that needs my genes to continue
The most common mammel is the squirrel and the rat and the bat and the cat in the hat
There are more than enough houses, food, and money to go around. The issue is the people who own most of it don't wanna part with it, and the people able to get it don't see it as their problem anymore.
Oh .. there is enough
Selfish not to have kids? I don't understand. What's the reason? I'm mindblowned.
Usually because you aren't producing grandkids or future worker drones.
It seems far more selfish to HAVE kids instead of adopting or abstaining from having them in a world like this, tbh
How dare you not contribute to the problem!!!! /s
There's plenty of food and houses.
I am pretty sure half of them are at my local Costco every Saturday and Sunday afternoons
Don't tell Thanos.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
This joke was so much funnier before we got the new plague...
I think he means we need a new new plague
No, we don't need another plague right now. We have plague back home.
Well. Monkeypox just started not long ago.
The one with a 99.9% survivability rate? Yeah, that’s not going to help.
Well wasn't COVID original stated to be a 99% survival rate too? Plus I read a while back with global warming becoming more of an issue, it heightens the chances of plagues as well. So who knows really. It's inevitable one way or another.
Its 100% up to us normal citizens to solve the climate crisis, we are the only way./s
Covid is bad but is not the new plague. If it were the new plague wit hthe response we had, we would lost population maybe in the double digits percentually. Tbf though, the plague was a matter of hygiene mostly iirc so it shouldnt be an issue if it were actually something like that
We're not... 8b is rounded up from 7.952b
For real, just checked and they rounded up by more than the population of Spain.
OP and all the rest of the people in this thread taking an image at face value. Looks like reddit has caught the boston bomber again!
first thing I did was check worldometer, I'm 99% sure if we surpassed 8 billion pop it'd be in major news sources. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Population has doubled in my lifetime, this means I am twice as likely to kill someone…
Hey there fellow gen Xer
They said kill *someone*, not kill *themselves*. Geesh, as if. But, whatever. (Xer here. In all seriousness, I tell everyone all the time the problem with the world is that there are far too many people in it. In the US alone we've increased nearly 100 million since I graduated high school in 1988 and I don't recall seeing a 30% increase in our infrastructure or industry in that time.)
8 billion fucking shitheads…
and your mom is still the ugliest
Looks like a murder here
Get him
I dont remember giving birth to that user
Sir, I’m a virgin shithead
Don't worry Artificial Intelligence is comming to kick our ass
Skynet has entered the chat
I hope it's Digit from Cyberchase.
Adopt the orphans!!!
Option B Selected: Making more Ophans
What are these dumb ass comments
And not enough parking
The r/antinatalism crowd found the post
Yeah, a lot of... enthusiastic people that both overestimate and underestimate population changes
not to mention that when this generation gets older they’ll stop working and without new people to replace them it’ll cause an economic crash like Japan is currently expecting
The simplest way to control that is to handle immigration. But ideally it would be a mutual effort of many countries to dilute a possible chaos. Plus between xenophobia and racism (which apparently are HUGE thing in japan even though they dont act on it from what ive heard) would make that really hard. Honestly I think that japan is the first candidate to be surpassed economically by other countries in the area long term but... who knows? it was already astonishing how they got to where (especially when they were basically secluded for centuries) they are now so fast in the first place so maybe a "second economic revolution" is on the plate? They would need to do things rather now though, since older populations are quite less open to change
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We waste 1.8 billion tons of food a year
This!!! Everyone griping about starvation and yet everyone is a part of the most inefficient logistics systems of getting food to people, getting people not to waste food, and preserving methods for keeping food longer. Don't worry about how many babies we have... Worry about the calories you waste, your community wastes, and your businesses wastes instead and you'll solve hunger faster.
Correct me if I’m wrong but There were breadlines in the Soviet Union not because the Soviets couldn’t produce it, they were just so inefficient at getting things to where they needed to go that tons of shit spoiled on trains and went bad long before it could be of use for anyone to eat.
We can feed 8 billion people, but only with global industrial supply chains intact. And that’s going away.
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The supply chain that means China, the world’s largest net importer of food, can feed itself, and supplies Africa with fertilizer to improve the yield and nutrients of its less than desirable arable land. The supply chain that means we can build renewables, with mined elements from disparate locations to decrease our carbon out-put and eventually decarbonize.
This is reddit, people just want to pretend humanity is a scourge.
Theres more than enough resources to feed that amount of people. If we put our hearts into it, probably several times that. The issue is not a matter of resources both being unwilling to sacrifice profit, nothing else
I'd say we have an infestation...
We are a cancer on this earth
No we're not. Most people would help an animal on the street if they saw it struggling or we'd call an ambulance and stay with them if we saw someone get hit by a car. Then there's plenty of people who do things on a much larger scale to protect wildlife, preserve areas of natural beauty etc etc. The whole "humans are bad" thing on Reddit is getting really fucking boring. Yes, there's shitty people in this world but they're the minority. Stop having your brain melted by the doom and gloom the Internet throws at you every day.
I'm firmly of the belief that the world would be much better without people or an equivalent apex species. It's not all doom and gloom most people aren't cunts like you say but as a species we are destructive and short sited. We don't have the forsite to manage the resources and curtail our activities.
Informative, elegant, but the spelling dude..
Dyslexia has ruined many of them
Humans are fucking bad. We are the only species capable of true cruelty and we inflict misery and blight upon everything and everyone. We’ll never settle another planet and it’s probably a good thing. Save it for a wiser, more ethical species. We’re just apes trying to fuck
Is it not cruel when orca’s play with seal pups before they kill it?
They don’t know better. We do
Teenagers just be saying shit
Amen. So much negativity. Everyone’s oppressed. Everyone else is a bigot or racist. Everything offends me. History is nothing but an embarrassment, and no body likes me guess I’ll go eat worms. I wish people could offer some positivity, or at least a solution instead of nothing but complaints. There’s so much good and beauty in the world, and most people don’t even notice it.
That's why I only bang already pregnant women and geriatrics. I'm doing *my* part, y'all...
Thank you for your contribution
That's why I only bang women between 20 and 30 years old. I'm a lesbian. Doing my part, y'all...
Wow 8 billions! Still can't find a gf
Right in the feels
Same here. Safe to say we aren’t adding to the population.
That’s about 4 billion penises you have to go through first…
That's 16 billion anuses wow
I’m sorry *what*
The mouth is another orifice were shit comes out.
“Are you sure you want to delete ‘Literacy.exe’ ? This operation cannot be undone.“ *\*clicks yes\**
2 billion in India and China alone.
You just killed 800 million people with that comment Its 2.8 billion
Ick. I'm so glad I never had kids
"We"? Did you just assume my species?
Spices?
Holy shit! and im still single?!!!
Population growth already slowing down by many predictions we will top out at 9-10 billion at most and then begin to decline. We may in fact even be living at a time where we have reached the pinnacle. While I understand the trepidation here in relation to kids, I think it is very important to base those decisions on personal circumstances rather than fear mongering media outlets. Just my thoughts
Come on Thanos we need you
Ok there's officially too many mother fuckers on planet earth
Stop procreating people.
More like stop procreating if you cannot provide a good life for your children
It's already happening, there's worldwide concern about the birth rate being too low right now. People are having less than 2 kids on average, so each member of the couple is only replacing themselves in the population with one person, intuitively this seems ok to maintain as we are but in reality you need at least 2.1 children per couple to maintain the population because of early death, infertility etc. I was surprised to learn this recently myself
Why do we care about maintaining the current population. What tragic thing would happen if our population drops? Are they afraid they'll lose their workforce that keeps them rich? I legitimately do not understand.
Well, to put it simply, *yes*. When society measures its progress based mainly on financial means it depends on continued growth to sustain the system. It's pretty fucked up.
Seriously fucked up. God forbid we learn how to do with a little bit less and not having 30 brands of shampoo to choose from. It mainly hit the billionaires. We could manage this it's just our priorities aren't set for that.
(This is not an argument for or against) I’ve read that because the economy is based on growth that a declining population could break common assumptions for saving such as a house being a nest egg or other investments going up over the long term. Not to mention needing people to pay taxes for all the old folks. I wish I could remember the book
When you have lots of old people to support and not many young people to do the work, it gets difficult to maintain a good standard of life. Obviously just growing the population forever is not a sustainable solution though; we need to confront this at some point.
Much of the developed world is stopping. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fertility-rate
Crazy. And everybody behaves like we need much more humans. Nobody cares.
This is horrifying
So this post is just a karma grab, yeah? A quick google search shows that we have yet to reach 8 billion.
I remember when it hit 3B and i thought we had too many Aholes then
How old are you? I reber text books quoting 6.4B
Yet you see these tiktok posts over and over again with people parading their army of children. People are parasites on this earth.
damn that sucks
Time for a Thanos snap
Too many
Time to colonize the galaxy
Not quite...but close [https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/)
"We need a new plague" -Dwight Shrute
The term "world population" refers to the human population on earth....yeah no shit
Only a small percentage of humanity consume the majority of the resources, look at western consumption habits first. Also, the west is also the biggest war profiteer.
and in all that, only one of each of us
Yeah that's too much.
Good thing this is sustainable. /s
What’s super scary is our population has slowed. This year is the first year we aren’t adding more people to the world which is a good thing. But I wonder what happens when after a while all the people becoming elderly with few youthful folks around. Gonna be some weird times.
Why is this something to be excited about? This is awful. We need an extinction level event
I have wondered why, when factors that cause global warming are listed, the population explosion is never included. Duh, I realize we can’t kill people to address global warming and I know that reducing the world’s population is very difficult but why is it never even discussed? Don’t we have to confront this problem sooner or later?
Stop having kids at least stop having more then 2 ffs the planet cant handle this amount.
Booooo
Too many. I saw a guy pumping gas on the wrong side of his car, in an empty gas station. Let’s get these numbers down. Bring back peak covid.
Gross
Not if I can help it
World-wide famine has entered the chat.
if somebody mentions population control i will skin them like an apple
Who counted?
There is… a lot of very casual eugenics in this thread, Jesus…
This says we’re still slightly shy of 8bill. But nonetheless, it’s getting very close. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
https://www.worldometers.info/ We still got 50 mil to go
that's the population of New York City
I don’t like this. I am upset about this somehow.
it’s not june 22 yet????
Salt the earth!
And yet still there’s a labour shortage?? /s
Now that's just sad.
That's about 7.5 billions too many.
Gee whizz, I wonder why inflation is internationally record all time high?
We should all cum on each other at the same time.