The Real crime against humanity is Overpopulation due to selfish breeding caused Rampant Inflation which caused everyone who is not a Multi-Millionaire to be forced to live a lower quality of life and also everyone including the Billionaires are poisioned due to earth being poisioned due to overpopulation due to selfish breeding. The people who grew up in the 1950s had the best quality of life because the planet wasn't so grossly overpopulated then.
Selfish breeding caused rampant inflation. Overpopulation due to selfish breeding is the root-cause of the worlds worst problems. Breeders don't give a crap that their selfish spawning causes mass shootings, rampant inflation, pandemics, climate change, noise pollution, wars, and less resources for the masses and so higher costs for the masses which caused Millions to become homeless. Basic Economics. Breeders either are not smart enough to understand the law of Supply vs Demand or they don't give a crap about anybody except themselves.
Well thanks to #MeToo this will never be solved. you see, once you have a social movement to reclassify all precursor activities that relate to dating, relationship formation and marriage as "sexual harassment", "sexual assault" and "rape" you should be surprised no one is fcking anymore. Add in the negative impacts of dating apps, modern feminism, instagram culture and absurd standards held by modern women and it all starts to make sense. In the dating app reality you better have six pack abs, make a six figure salary and be a minimum of 6ft six feet tall lol. Otherwise forget about it modern women are disgusted by real average men. Who wants to be bothered with all that BS? Men have options and it doesn't take alot to make us happy, we can do without.
Sperm count is less relevant than the death grip of economic pressure forcing young people to reject a future family. Rents are too high, house prices out of reach, wages too low, future looks bleak. Intentional celibacy; rejecting dating;
@@LavenderFlush And it is horrifying that the same class of politician who have enriched themselves through this growing inequality are the same people that are now complaining about the drop in fertility rates.
Every time a woman has a child she becomes dependent. She is either dependent on someone else for income as she cares for her child or she is dependent on someone to care for her child while she works for income. Biologically the difference between the genders is that women carry and, give birth to children. If we go by nature, women feed babies and children her milk, which means she is close to them in the early years. Economically we make having children mean women are economically at a disadvantage because we do not value women by paying them what this production is truly worth. I am a grandmother and I see my daughter and her peers that have children struggle under the load of expectation to be in the workforce and to have children too. This expectation on our women is unrealistic. I hear young women not wanting children at all. We are where we are as a society because we have valued the wrong things and we need to address this issue and economically value women that carry, birth, and nurture children. Our future depends on it . Many women struggle when they leave their babies to go to work. Women want to be valued.The profit before people has a big part in the rest
And obviously being a women is a lot easier in many aspects than being a man. Albeit you lack the drive that men do as well as the touch of excellence.
theres no reason for people to be living under financial stress during times when AI can replace lots of jobs out there. children are important for the future. people should try to have children as early as possible since your likely to be in better health as compared to an older age. as you age, the body builds up toxins and bacteria and it affects the offsprings as well. its fine if men and women dont attach or like each other but the least we need is children being created at a young age to keep humanity continuing. if reincarnation is real, i would rather be reincarnated as a human than some other animal which will die in a painful way.
@@jameslave98 you don't even know how to spell correctly much less how to run your life. It's not "albeit" its I'll bet. YEAH YOU DON'T NEED KIDS STAY INFERTILE
As a millennial with a degree in demographics and economics, I can tell you without a doubt my generation is having less kids due to high cost of living. Our debt based, consumption driven, ponzi banking, flat currency scam etc.. is ruining society. Women being forced to work in order to keep their family from living on the streets has created negative effects on society at large. We could start with lowering taxes for those who are or planing on restocking the population of our species. It's hard to believe that governments haven't started to help in some way. Must be to busy gathering power with this 15 year wealth transfer we are experiencing.
Thats half of it, the toxic chemical environment is also wreaking havoc on peoples reproductive system and ALL systems. When ADD started really taking off, people said "Wallll, we're just counting it more" but I was hearing from teachers of 'everyday shit' that we NEVER saw, even from weird kids. But for the 'conscious' part of it, I think you'd have to be INSANE to look at the world today and want to bring more people into it.
People can't afford to have families, the barriers are too high. No one can buy a family home, most can't afford a new car, to feed an entire family, medical expenses, or any basic needs. People have been priced out of living, never mind a family.
I don't see how how anyone can raise a child without making a decent salary! And not all of us are fortunate enough to have well-paying jobs that are sustainable. Or any jobs, for that matter! (Presently unemployed yours truly!)
You don't need alot of money to raise one child. Parents spoil their children with all the latest and greatest of everything, and it doing so they are teaching them the worst lesson in life...and that is intimacy is attached to materialism. The most valuable things are free. Time, bike rides, hiking, swimming are all free.
@@Radiatoron88 You have kids and you figure out how to pay for things. The lack of money makes it harder but it is still very possible. The real question is it fair to the children? My kids are just reaching adulthood. They are all doing pretty well. They all have some anxiety about their future, but that is pretty normal for most people.
@@mariabeckwith3336 The costs of healthcare, food, clothing, and post-secondary education are "considerable," to put it mildly, so if you don't have a good job or other income that pays decently, good luck with trying to raise children. I was lucky in that my father was an executive who made a decent--though not anywhere near "rich"--salary, and so he was able to support his family. But even so, money "issues" always furrowed his brow, and it often seemed to me like money was something that was very often a serious matter. I agree with you though that bike rides and time were mostly free--well, you'd have to buy a bike, of course. But as a "boomer," yes, I know what you're talking about. Just being free from school in summer vacation was a great joy. Time to walk, run, shoot baskets, throw a baseball back and forth, ride your bike, climb a tree, hang out with your friends, and so on--all free and enjoyable pastimes. No "screens" beyond TV and movie theaters at that time, so no people walking around transfixed like zombies by their "smartphones," or endlessly playing video games. I'm very grateful that I grew up in a place and time when kids had more of a life outdoors, not just a "screen-focused" existence! Oh, let's not forget one more great joy that didn't cost much money--books! I was lucky to grow up in a home where there were always lots of books around, so I became curious about them, and eventually became an avid reader like the rest of my family. The whole "Wizard of Oz" series was such fun when I was young!
As mentioned, the issue of fertility is not only a chemical problem, but is more so a cultural problem: Less men want to raise families in today's society, less women want to have children in favor of independence
Exactly that's how me and my ex are we are still friend's but we don't want kids or to get married I am definently having neither. Because of our shitty family members why bother? It's heartbreaking but oh well. We both feel like we would be shitty parents to.
More men want men more women want women everyone else is confused about gender so humanity is over we will not survive the next 100 years. Thanks liberals
Yeah nobody seems to talk about that- It’s just one more thing that men and women are SUPPOSED to do… People can see the world and how it is…Maybe we’re not supposed to keep going as a species as is.
As a millennial, I can hardly afford myself. What would make me think I can all of a sudden be able to take care of another life? Two income houses have difficulty making ends meet. As for fertility... well, look at what we put in our bodies and all the chemicals companies just dump to save money. The only people who can fix this is people at the top, but that would require them to not take bribes.
Buddy, I feel you, trust me, a lot of people do, but here's the counter argument How do poor people have more kids? How did your ancestors made it? Are you sure you aren't better of than your ancestors? (Really, even if you are worried about not being able to supply what others deem you have to, If you're morally driven and a good guy that can make it, you CAN make it)
@@nickbarber2080 They are rewarded, but the reward depends on the man she tricked into marriage and the size of his wallet, or the length of his list of assets.
The issue to me is that society itself is not oriented to support families. If I had more support from family/community with childcare and other work I would have had 10 kids.
Yes, I agree. My parents held grudges against me and would not help. We had no other support system either, not even our church. We were only good for giving them our money and time, the never returned the favor. At one point, my husband was ill. I had all the responsibility of supporting us. We had two young children at the time. It was at that point that I decided no more kids. It just was too much. Several years later, things got straighten out, I tried to have another, but no luck, I was infertile. Insurance wasn't paying for treatment at the time (1990's). So the odds were stacked against us ever having more than two kids. I think that we were lucky even for that. If we had to do it today, I don't think we could afford it. $90./week for food for two people. We bought a house years ago when houses cost much less. Our children are grown, but neither wants kids. We will never have grandchildren. They are on the two different ends of the can't have kids spectrum. With our son, it's economic. He can't afford even marriage. Our daughter is the exact opposite. She and her husband earned big salaries, own a large house, but she loves her freedom and her traveling. She's not about to give it up. She bought her husband a dog instead and so her foreign born, old world in laws will have someone to baby sit while she travels. Their other son has no kids either, his common law wife has a child who is now a teen from another relationship. They are not getting married, but own a house.
Profit ist nicht kompatibel mit unterstützende , nachhaltige Kinderpflege und Kinderbetreuung Betreuung. Genauso wenig wie mit Krankheitspflege und Versicherung. Die ,, Gesellschaft frisst ihre Kinder "! Aberante Entwicklung in einer Digitalen Era.😖
@@woodchuck83 no woodchuck we are good Women are happier being single and living their best life, and they live longer The trap is marriage. The only people who benefit from marriage are men.
Rather than breed more humans as a slave workforce for the economy, remake the economy and rethink way of life. Focus on quality of life, not quantity and ceaseless production, which is unsustainable.
Hey you stupid economists, you say the economy will shrink? Well I'm a chick who has studied zero economics in her life and have a suggestion for you: figure out a way that we can have our cake and eat it too! I'll be waiting. You stupid economists who keep assuming we need growth and that productive humans produce wealth.
You only need one sperm. But to nurture that child requires a stable job, a secure roof, and for at least 18 years of optimism that the things you can provide you can sustain.
Why would anyone bother with that is beyond me. The only credit I give to having kids is it's a birth right to reproduce but why anyone would think it's a good idea in their thinking to have kids in this day is beyond me
@Mocha Mommy yeah im 23 and have no desire for children. Most of the reason is im emotionally detached. Too much stress when we have emotions to be honest.
I’m 100% infertile because I got fixed at age 27. That’s was well over a decade ago and I still believe it was a very good decision for my emotional and financial wellbeing.
@@monhousebienesraices9033 good question, because my first child was born two months after we were married, and less than a year from the time we met ...our families abandoned us, and even abused us. We persevered, and today we're married for forty two years, managed to change countries to raise, educate and keep safe our son and daughter❤
I love my son with all my heart. When I look at his future I feel guilty and selfish for bringing him into his future. I pray for him and his future and ask God to protect him.
Married 1973. Four children. My oldest is 50. Only one of my children, have children. The cost of raising families is outrageous. When my children started coming along, I worked and my wife cared for them and the home. As the years progressed we became more and more unable to cope on one income. She started work. We didn’t become better off, we just managed to scrape through. Corporate and government greed are the problems.
not just that, we have new "vaginocapitalism" where vagina is used not as reproduction tool, but as social lift; and that destroys society, because it leads to scarcity of resource; as result vaginas are not working enough in our population, and it gives bunch of health problems - tissues die, degrade on cellular level, up to the increased cancer probability and subsequent elimination of womb and breasts surgically; vaginocapitalism destroys both men and women, so don't look at it as "matriarchy"; and all the deviations today essentially support vaginocapitalism; masturbation is a deviation
Just go to places where smart people gather if you want a smart partner my guy. But make sure you work on yourself so you are marriage material if you want a relationship
The working class were never meant to be happy, just productive and law abiding. Life is way too stressful. The non-stop spam calls and junk emails. Getting employment becomes a job with scammers pretending to be employers. Dating sucks, boomer parents can't understand our woes and work is psychological warfare. No children or marriage in my future. I have to schedule time with friends instead of being able to relax out out of leisure. Wage stagnation, high cost of living, high healthcare costs, high student loan debt and high costs for healthy food eats up 90% of our budgets. I regret being born. GOOD LUCK!
when would i ever have the time to get a girlfriend and get married, have kids, raise kids. there's no time, i need all of my time to make money just so i can survive
I was married, I paid all the bills, did ALL the housework, all the cooking, all the yard work, all the car maintenance, all the utilities etc etc.. She worked , so she had money. This is the typical American relationship, the man gets used, abused and treated like a disposable utility with no value as a person. I got laid off my high paying job, took two full time jobs and still did all the housework. I wanted children she didn't so we had none. She left when I lost my job. I was 29, never dated again. I know at least a dozen meb Who can say the same..
We were also told that we would have far more leisure time, and sent on courses to prepare for early retirement, so we would have plenty of interests. Instead, we are all having to work far longer because the money is not there to provide pensions.
Overpopulation was bad for us, because we competed for resources. We always do that but the overpopulation reduced the resources significantly and predatory corporations took advantage of that. That’s why we have outrageous prices today. That’s how CEO’s came to make 400 times that of their employees. Those things will not change if the population declines. Those greedy men will just watch the rest of us die, as they already have been.
Look around. Tell me honestly that you think we're not overpopulated on a global scale. Look at the way tourism is destroying places. The way poor countries' governments are suspending services in the wake of demand-based infrastructure failures. The way we're all starting to worry about aquifers collapsing and various cities plan on how to avoid hitting day zero water crises. It's just that... after the overshoot comes the collapse.That's the really awful bit, the part that includes a lot of human suffering, and it's why they were warning about overpopulation.
its best to have kids as early as possible. the younger you are, the more likelier you are to be healthier since bacteria and toxins build up in the body as you age. after you reach 30, its best to not have children.
Unlike most people you are intelligent for abstaining from parenthood. There are absolutely no advantages to being a parent, it is a miserable as Hell existence of work work work and more fucking work and stress. By abstaining from parenthood one is making one's life easier.
@@joejohnson3814 I am resolute in my opinion on parenthood. Unlike vast majority of people I am immune to loneliness, my experiences of life have toughened me up, as I was born into some very dire circumstances. I cherish my freedom which is priceless. It is utterly stupid people who throw away their life of freedom for a life of misery that comes from being a parent. Fact is that the lives of child-free people are considerably easier than that of parents, so those who make their lives considerably difficult by becoming parents can only be considered stupid.
"When an organism perceives its environment as hostile, it chooses immortality. When it perceives its environment as friendly, it chooses reproduction." A quote from the movie "Lucy" that seems relevant to this discussion topic. I think generally men are increasingly recognizing the environment as hostile to them quite frankly (relationship risks including having children are not perceived as worth it).
I've heard this argument a lot more recently too. I for one will always chose to preserve myself over staring a family with even an ounce of uncertainty, if I do I'm subjecting them to the same life, crushed by corporations, taxes and political crooks. Or they leave and you're left with emptiness. I've grown up around it, and seen it all my life.
Damn y'all are so bleak😂 sorry everything is so horrible for you. Get off the internet for a week. Go hiking read a novel for fun. You have filled your mind with shit and it needs to take a dump😊
Damn, nailed it. That's so true. I'm taking good care of myself, because the odds of having a decently happy kid are higher if I wait out this narcissistic self-destructive civilization. The chances of having a downie during the last half of my life are lower than the chances of having my kid offing him/herself when it's found out what this world is.
@@jayo3074 cause men don't make enough to pay for everything the family needs. So the women need to be providers. So if they do have children, they don't actually get to be nurturers, because the state does that now. Everyone just gives their babies away to the state to be tormented and used by a system from hell.
This society doesn’t deserve children. It doesn’t value the risks, sacrifices, and struggles of motherhood or the needs of children. Women and children deserve better than these crumbles our society offers. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to survive instead of being able to enjoy life.
I just spoke to a guy yesterday who was telling me about a house that sold for $180K twenty years ago in Texas that was now worth $1.4 million. My income hasn’t increased 7 times since 2003. Who the hell can afford children?
Right? I'm not that old, but when I was in my early 20s, the min wage was $3.95! Now it not even double that, at $7-something. In the south, there are jobs that actually pay $10/hr. Where is the rent that matches that wage?
@@jgfjhg-co7iq I live in the forest and bathe in the lake, and it only costs me about 160$ per year to maintain my off grid home that costed 45k. just kidding
Almost all food is packaged in plastic. First, you have the visible plastics. Then: Metal cans- plastic lined. Butcher paper - plastic lined Glass jar - plastic or plastic lined lid Fresh produce - bag it in plastic yourself
@@nattykadifa2856 corporate greed about sums it up .. play your part by being self sufficient .. wherever humanely possible. Products in a capitalist democracy are made to be sold not to be used .. Make your own sh*t! or learn how to freely whilst you still can! As Terence Mckenna put it - "Make your OWN roadshow!"
Hot take, people are more self-centered / social media centered to develop enough mentally for parenthood. Also, they now have other things to do during the long winter nights
Tom, let her talk... quit interrupting her as she's trying to develop her points. And what she is talking about is absolutely critical and so exactly explains a lot of the modern social and cultural issues happening today. Like gender dysphoria particularly prominent in males, for example. And don't confuse her points, which are about the base biology of human reproduction, with birth rate declines caused by economic or macro cultural factors like cost of living. And obviously she's trying to talk by his bantering on about penis size etc. Its too late , you can't change what was planted a few days after conception.
I believe the elite already have the stuff needed to replace the bottom 50 percent and they are not just releasing it yet they are waiting for us to die off.
The southwest has an exploding population with families having 5 or more kids. No lack of population at all. Poor, and yet...they can afford to have a big family.
Poor diet, high stress, low pay, high pollution, low sleep, and the endless self-reeducation to keep up with technological changes leaves little time for romance. At least among the poors.
Fertility is higher in lower income families. Women's education and career aspirations drives down family size (often to 0 because they wait too long).
White populations are experiencing a catastrophic decline and it's not an accident. Someone wants us gone.It's the Kalergi Plan. They want obedient,compliant people.
no one complained or warned that the population at 3 Billion was too low and the sky was falling in. We've created this mess by continuing to breed to 8 billion. This "correction" is timely. Should have allowed it to peak and stabilize at 3 billion.
A good point. The host is correct about economic collapse, but only from the point of view that we created this need through the drive gor never ending growth, and the truth is that is just not sustainable.
I lived aboard a sailboat for 15 years, sailing the world, it was a magical time. I have seen first hand the increase in microplastics in the oceans, no surprise that fish are becoming toxic to eat now. Further, as a landlubber now, I see the chemicals destroying the soil, directly or through air pollution, and poisoning the food chain. No surprise to me we are killing ourselves, fertility as well. Further, i had a vasectomy at 30, in my mind I never wanted kids, still don't, and at 72 no regrets, a personal choice. I followed my wanderlust heart. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Live large.
Nope, you never saw any of that about microplastics. Nope, you haven't seen chemicals destroying the soil. As for life being a 'dress rehearsal', you decided to live in a one-man play about yourself instead of living the real life.
@@jonathandewberry289 Please wake up! Now in my late sixties, I have lived a 'regular' life and have observed what danmcmurry describes. That's a sweeping statement and there have also been some apparent improvements but increasing pollution is - alas - real.
@@htimsid He hasn't observed those things and neither have you. You haven't been seeing 'microplastics' ever. Not once did you go to the beach and notice such a thing. Nor have you observed an increase in pollution. You have not seen such a thing in your entire life. You've actually lived in a time when pollution has been decreasing and cleaning up pollution (from previous eras) but cleaning it up has been increasing. So, nope, alas, it isn't real at all but only your imagination. Be grateful you happened to be born and lived in a very rare time when society was so wealthy it could afford to reduce pollution.. really.. just afford to care about it enough to even start measures at all. You were blessed to live in such a time. lucky, undeserved. be grateful.
By that age she has a lot of life experience and can foretell the future easily. When old people warn me of the future consequences of my current actions I always take them seriously. That's why I have no regrets.
One quibble: it’s not that women who have kids are having less, they aren’t having less-it’s that the number of childless women has grown exponentially. This is in most part due to not finding a partner within the fertility window and/or delaying too long where artificial insemination treatments fail.
last part is spot one, in my country most women that have the first kid they do it at 32 based on stats? at 33 women fertility drops by 50% i think and also gettin older mentaly and physicaly does not help. So ye there was a reason why years ago people had kids in their 20s
Millions of women choose to vote themselves men's incomes through big government rather than marry and raise families. They then pay lip service to wanting a family once it's too late. You don't defer something you want for as long as possible.
200 years ago, you needed a large family to make the household, farm work. With the majority of the people now living in cities, large families aren't necessary to make a household function.
Loving this channel and these long-form discussions. You are very respectful, you let people speak, you hear them out and listen to what they're actually saying, and you push back and ask important questions to further the discussion. Kudos to you my man, this type of content is sorely lacking nowadays.
I love kids but my hubby and I will never create more miserable slaves. All we do is work. We're both educated and work an insane amount just to get by. We used to vacation every year but that's no longer in the budget either.
@andre1987eph Nope. We drive older and paid off vehicles. We live in a very small house that was bulit in the 50's. We just live in commie Canada and can't immigrate to the states because we're white.
The American diet is terrible. There are more and more omnivorous human beings eating a vegetarian diet. People don't eat enough protein, and they are eating inferior proteins from vegetables instead of the required proteins from meat and eggs. There is no way in this world for people to maintain I.Q. rates when they are doing these things. In addition, our hobbies and jobs do not continue to demand high levels of thinking due to increasing levels of division of labor. Yes, we are getting dumber.
@@ednakravitz2738 That's for sure. You really have to wonder how sleeping one's way to the top can actually work at such high levels of leadership. We should all be embarrassed for this ridiculous system that allows this.
I'm 28 years old there's no more joy in life I'm just bored just wake up , work , come home, make dinner , sleep, repeat . I don't think I can last another 30 years like this before hopefully something takes me out
People in 1940s even the rich were poorer from todats standard. Its the stupid education system that has made people stupid with no common sense no maturity. The King 100 years ago had a living standard lower than a common man with hot water and comfortable modes of communication +++. Watch movie "Idiocracy".
This breaks my heart. Did you have anything that fascinated you when you were a kid? Hobbies? Sports? Could you join a club? I agree about talking to a doc…. Untreated depression will just wreck you, and it’s NOT a character flaw. Just chemistry. Staying out of the comment sections is helpful… they’re toxic cesspools that can break your faith in humanity.
Drop it all and immigrate. It’s scary but what do you have to loose. I’ve traveled all over the country and world with no money. Just figuring it out. If one lace starts to get to stagnant where I feel stuck I move on. I eventually landed in a place I didn’t want to move from, and it’s been 18 years here very happy. It’s mentally stimulating, and just learning languages and having good stories creates work opportunities. What else do you have to lose?
More couples are waiting to have kids until they pay off their student loans, or at least get a handle on them. For a lot of them, they are in their mid to late 30's. Colleges are about 2/3 women these days which means they have 2/3 the debt. This makes the problem of being able to afford to have kids even worse.
I know of more than one woman who is saddled with heavy college debt, poor earning potential, and are feeling unable to start a family due to their debt load.
Free education and no student loans would be a huge benefit to the population of the US. There will NEED to be more beneficial social programs to support families and single parents in the US to maintain the current population.
@Puddintame1242 Yea, I just love the rightwing talking points saying all this school debt is from people doing stupid things like not knowing how to budget or going to school for a useless degree. Nowhere do these rightwing propaganda outlets explain how this high debt was planned by the financial industry. This way they can keep you perpetually stuck in the "system" for decades and they can profit from the debt by packaging it up into securities like they did to mortgages and sell them off to investors as guaranteed income because almost nobody can file bankruptcy on these loans. God forbid any of that is mentioned.
Governments clawing at families for Tax, burdens couples and ends marriages breaks up families. Corruption in government discourages natural human relations which would result in children, couples reject bringing new life into a world where they are predated upon.
Honestly with so many current crisis, it's hard to worry about something that will happen 50/100 years from now. I rather take a more stoic approach to such subjects to protect my own mental health.
Yeah, but this is a real crisis. Clear, genuinely modelable, and media is not covering it so we know it is real. To fix? start by stopping the pay gap lie.
There have always been problems. WWI, WWII, the Great Depression, the gasoline shortage of the 70s, the Cold War, the Savings and Loan scandal of the 80s. The birth of the internet, Social media start, 9-11 and the loss of our privacy, COVID. The 2008 mortgage crisis. Higher incidence of insulin resistance and diabetes leading to inflammation and cancer. Problems have always been here. The problem is that we are much more aware now than ever before or problems. My suggestion to everyone in the U.S. is to get away from the T.V., social media, RU-vid, and start saving money, start walking, be friendly, and meet your neighbors. You know...fundamental stuff.
yeah, but given that this is something that may take three generations to solve, by the we address it, it's going to be pretty damn late. Anyway. This isn't a 50 years from now problem. In many places it is a now problem. Africa is the only place in the world that is at replacement levels today and fertility is drooping sharply even there.
The world is a mess. Everything's upside down yet only a few notice it. Living a normal life is now considered abnormal and vice versa. I'm a single man, never smoke, drink or fornicate. Yet still couldn't find a woman to marry. Any decent ladies here? I live sustainably trying to live minimally with organic produce.
Your organic produce is covered in organic pesticides and that still has nothing to do with your microplastic consumption. Anyway it's may so you can still plant a lot of your own food for this year.
Its wild how many guys are single who own homes, don't do drugs, and practically are just waiting to meet a decent women. I have two friends like this and I'm a girl. If I was single maybe I'd go for them. But it's so odd that we can't find any nice girls for them. 😢
I get annoyed when people cry about the falling birth rate. These people should adopt a child, donate money to help children living in poverty, or at least feed a hungry child. We should work on increasing the survival rate of children.
They are the ones Christ called out, and while they are preventing Europeans from having children. They are encouraging their own to have kids, with your taxpayer money expropriated at gunpoint.
We’ve lived without plastics before. It’s called glass containers. We need to look no further that Ohio disaster to know how bad the “plastic revolution” was when everyone was shamed into taking plastic over paper when at the end of the grocery story checkout.
Glass is fragile, I can get a pack of 42 water bottles that I can carry for like 3 bucks, to get that many glass waterbottles would cost a lot more, be much heavier and one slip up and there's glass everywhere. There are alternates to plastic being creates now adays but it takes time to scale them up. One of the coolest I've seen is containers made from plant fiber, I have multiple bowls made from wheat and rice husk, they are plastic and chemical free, they are freezer and microwave safe, biodegradable and non toxic.
I dehydrate food and store it in airtight glass containers. Soon I'm going to start canning... in glass containers. I prepare and freeze meals and meal bases... in glass containers.
Whats the incentive of having children in todays world. I can barely afford to take care of myself. I cant imagine taking care of a child in this piss poor world
So, with all these people worrying about human reproduction/fertility, how do we unwind the Earth's unsustainable human population? Is anyone thinking about this???
I think it’s good for the planet and the lower classes to not have kids. Less people creates competition for labor. Wages go up, and people have more babies. In the meantime we’re at least stagnating the population that has grown out of control.
I happen to work with these people.mostly mentally ill schizophrenia 35% are people autistic 25% an ID INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED 45% an the rest are trying to beat a drug charges what we refer to as malingers .None of this is easy and ractical approaches incringe on human rights violations there's always someone watching
There are men who are outstanding fathers and caregivers who share both the financial and caregiver load with their wives. In fact these types of men are what many women seek when finding a mate.
It's what I looked for and it paid off and is still paying off. I have a wonderful husband. That's not to say life has always been easy, it hasn't. But I can trust him to be on our side and he is. We respect each other's adulthood.
Very interesting subject, Tom. We're about the same age and I too remember being told not to get anyone pregnant. I remember sitting at the dinner table and my dad threatening us not to. I realize he just didn't want us having children before our time but it stigmatized what it meant to have children and I therefore never did. Another factor was how I watched my parents struggle to pay the bills. While our family had what it needed, we certainly weren't flash but never took handouts from the government either. I always had handed down bikes and wore cheap tennis shoes, for example. It taught me to be very self-sufficient and to take care of what I had. I have a brother and sister and they only have one child each. When our country went to two income households in the 70s, supercharged by the high divorce rate, it was the beginning of the end. The advent of the birth control pill played into this as well. Then, technology killed any new baby boom we might have had in the 90s. I think a lot of people wish they could morph into the gadgets that consume their every waking moment and shrug off their humanity which explains the increasing hostility and lack of empathy toward each other.
When 'patriarchy'ruled, they had to drum that into boys and girls. Many went on to have multiple generations of children. If that was defining for you, as anti natal, perhaps it's not because of what was present in your life, but what was missing.
If it's any comfort, not all of us younger folks drank the Kool Aid. My husband and I had four children by the time we were 35. I think it helped that we were both raised in households where the mother stayed home to work as a caretaker, and the father worked full time.
It's not modern life exactly that is causing so many of us in Western nations to become more and more celibate, rather it's programming that is an attempt to rile up younger and middle-aged males to go to war, followed by those still alive after that war coming home to lots of "kitty cat" stuff. "Do the work (of war), get the reward" being the message. Twenty years ago 60% of males in their 20s surveyed said they "made whoopie" at least once in the previous 12 months, and about 70% of same aged females said the same. Today, 60 to 70% of woman in their 20s say they are "making whoopie" at least once a year, but only about 20 to 30% of males in their 20s have even had one date in the previous year. Clearly social programming is doing this.
we waited 9 years after first married to have a child. the expenses of hospital, constantly losing jobs, forced bankruptcy and long term unemployment kept us from having anymore! I managed to keep a roof over our heads but what a stressful period of my life until our si started college we lived literally penny to penny.
Modern media, film, television, internet, have made it possible for everyone to see what the best lives are like: the lives of the most beautiful people, the richest people, the luckiest people. 90% of people are collateral victims of life: unremarkable, unattractive, hopeless in terms of talents, success and finances. It is not surprising if some percentage of that majority comes to the conclusion that they do not want to participate in life. They don't have the quality, strength or courage for success, they don't want to settle, so they choose not to participate: _"I don't want to be with a woman if I can't have a beautiful woman. I don't want to have children if I can't afford the best life for myself and them. I don't want to work hard if I know I won't achieve success worth the effort."_ I understand and support that.
That’s a good way to look at it though I’m seeing mostly women thinking this way not guys but am now seeing a large number of men and boys 16-35 wanting to not participate at all
@@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387I would definitely say it goes both ways if not more so with men. Women are more picky for sure but it’s more so men with these hopeless “if I can’t have/do it why bother” thoughts. It’s not surprising the suicide rate with men is higher than women. Also see more women opting out of the dating game too just as men are. Almost all the women I know choose to be single/don’t pursue relationships now. So weird, when I was younger I couldn’t wait to find my special person, now at the age of 25 and seeing how the dating game currently works… I’m good too lol
I dated much of my 20s and 30s, wanted to settle down (but never wanted children). I was a very attractive younger woman, and had my pick of the litter. As I aged, I stayed fit, colored any grays, used sunscreen, no drinking, no smoking. Now in my 50s looking 35, and every man looks like Santa Claus, only fatter. I have been dating late-30s and that is not sustainable because I don't feel we have much in common. I'd like a man closer to my age that is still appealing. I made the effort for them. And I am stuck with nothing and feeling pretty bitter.
It is relevant to the times. Social norms, political view points shift, and even religious dogma can change. Every generation faces new problems and challenges. It also seems every new generation blames the preceding generations for the challenges it faces.
@@alwayslearning8365 "every new generation blames the preceding generations..." Well yeah, of course we can. If we're taught when we're young and impressionable to be dreadfully fearful of getting pregnant, getting others pregnant, and having kids before establishing yourselves financially first... then why blame us if we live with that fear later in life?
The rampant inflation and screeching of babies in every neighborhood and all the beaches during the summer months is proof the world is grossly overpopulated. How dare the breeders create this inflation due to selfish breeding and they are not held accountable for the disaster they created. And on top of all that the overpopulation due to selfish breeders has caused the panet to become toxic.
My whole life I knew I wanted to be a father, it was instinctual and part of my dating criteria. I only dated women who wanted kids too. But I'm 30 years old now and something changed along the way. I'm unsure if I want to have kids anymore, and if I were to articulate why, it's because throughout my 20s I struggled with my career. 6 years of study, and then 6 years of struggle just to become financially stable, and have a level of leverage. My 30s feels as if I'm having a delayed 20s. I'm literally buying action figures, and shit I couldn't even afford in my 20s. In my 30s I'm a bit burned out, overworked, and I'm just starting to search for contentment in life. Many of my friends still struggle, so many still live with their parents, are broke, working fast-food / "dead end jobs"... these are difficult times. If you cannot even support yourself, and don't feel like you have leverage in your own life, how are you going to feel ready to raise a whole second human being? Folks can't even afford dental / healthcare, can't afford homes... How are they going to feel like they can afford a child? I actually didn't health insurance throughout my 20s because I couldn't afford it. My wisdom teeth literally rotted, and I couldn't do anything for 2 years because the dentist quoted me 8000$ for impacted surgeries. I actually traveled to India for 2300$ and had it done for 300$. Since I've experienced hardships, I know it's often not selfish / superficial. It's not that women only want independence, or men don't want to be tied down. If you look at the graph, "In bad times fewer babies are born", it dipped during the great depression, during the 1973 oil crisis, and now during the recession / inflation. If people felt financially / emotionally stable, wanting children would be the natural next challenge. I would also say the west incentivized divorce, and men are more reluctant of legal marriages, and there's obviously a toxic culture of OF, gender wars, radical feminism, "we don't need men", the radical red pill stuff etc. The algorithm shows me that shit on a daily basis.
Pretty much my same story. Finally got fairly stable in 2019 but couldn't get a house due to retirement investment firms snatching everything up with cash. Pandemic, then inflation. I graduated into the 08 crash back in the day. My environment is hostile and unstable. I can eat today, but tomorrow is uncertain. Throughout highschool I wanted nothing more than to be a Dad. No thought for career. Just have kids and find a way. Now I'm an antinatalist.
I’m sorry dude but the men that can afford to get married. Still marry. Divorce or not. Men of higher status do not care about that. It’s the men who do not have much to begin with that are always worrying about something that no one is even asking them for. Who is asking you to marry them? Can you even get a date? Even if you wanted kids, do you have a woman that wants to do that for you? I heavily doubt it. All that divorce stuff is just an excuse 😂
That's my sentiment exactly, however I see things a little differently lately, I am simply a product of my environment, we all are in some way shape or form, the more shit you are exposed to at an earlier stage, the more problems you are likely to have later on, that's why statistically broken families birth broken children by raising them in a wrong environment, if and when they form families of their own, they are more likely to bring up broken children because people attract what feels familiar and do as such, it looks to be an unbreakable cycle, and what I innately feel is I need to break this cycle, by potentially not having children of my own if the right environment is not there. The younger you are the less you think about consequences and only look towards the exciting stuff, that's why some cultures push people to marry early, so the raw rice is already cooked so to speak, so you go along to get along to get on with it. Not saying which is right or wrong, but I feel it's easier to make decisions while you are still young and "stupid", much harder when you have seen enough or wise enough, the power of will is very different.
Send everyone back to farm life. We grew up not eating fast food of any kind. We played in the woods. We never had plastic anything in our homes. Vinegar was the answer for sore throats, ear aches and cleaning. Cob web bandages. So many things were different growing up in the country.
I noticed a change in the dating market starting in the mid-to-late 2000s - if you went on a date with someone and it didn't work out, instead of it ending gracefully or without tension or hostility, you would often get insulted or humiliated. I don't remember that happening in the 90s.
@@marygoff3332 It's partly cultural change but now that I think of it, it's also the type of dates I was on. In the 90s it was perfectly good women in their 20s and younger, same age as me, who later went on to long-term serious relationships. By the 00s, it was late 20s to early 40s women who, had they been more normal, wouldn't have even been dating but because they weren't, were by now becoming bitter and rabidly judgemental if you didn't tick all their boxes. Instead of sorting out their own problems internally, which in their late teens or early 20s just looked like "growing pains" on the way to becoming adults, they were now blaming you for their own failures and shortcomings. Most of the ones with their heads screwed on were already spoken for by this point, a decade or more into their adult lives. Just the leftovers remained. Men on the market at the same stage of life aren't as weird because they often have more juvenile interests until a decade or so into their adult lives - they take longer to be ripe for the picking.
haha! I've gone on 'dates' where I was (tragically) so glad and relieved it was over, and never looked back, just looked forward to getting a better 'date'
@@Fongolitus The problem was that my experience over about a decade was that if dating someone wasn't going anywhere, you would simply (without hostility or enmity) mutually go your seperate ways. At some point after that however, it morphed into a semi-regular pattern of being insulted and humililated when we didn't hit it off. The first 10 years of dating looked nothing like the next 5, so I wasn't at all prepared for it.
@@ReturnOfTheJ.D.Oh, I assure you, the leftover men are every bit as weird. A 33-year-old who's eagerly awaiting the new Star Wars product, still works an entry-level job, and can't cook is off-putting.
Young people are sad and don't have a great out look, so why have kids... the future doesn't look all that good to them. Chemicals are one thing but I think the mental aspect of reproducing (loneliness, social media, dating sites, body issues, woke, stress, etc) is just too much for many people.
Thank you Tom and Shanna. I am a single gay man. I considered having a child. Putting the financial burden aside; I cannot in good conscience bring my progeny into this world. Because in my opinion, humanity treats each other like disposable fodder for consumer capitalism to exploit and I cannot guarantee my child will be cared for appropriately if something happens to me and I die. Look at how we treat the homeless and immigrants. No thank you!
But also look at how the "homeless" (generally drug addicts of young/working age males) treat themselves. I have myself and those I love to worry for. I can't help them, too. They are too far gone. And no, I am not christian.
Homeless can't be helped. Soviet Union tried to put people that wanted to wander around and drug addicts and alcoholics in jobs. It was disaster. You don't want to work with such people
Really glad the guest spoke out against the reductionism. "We are just chemical processing plants" is way too reductionist. We cant even explain consciousness, so I'm glad she pointed out that theres still much we can't explain with science. She's a true scientist.
Agreed, and there were a few other occasions whereby she cautioned against making direct conclusions when the possible answers were open. She is a true scientist.
Bless this woman and all her work, this is the only way to impact the use of these harmful chemicals and you can tell how much of her life she has invested
@@purpur7187 What are you expecting? She is a scientist, not someone with political nor economic power. She is doing vitally important work and we need to listen. We as a society can fix this if we act on what she is talking about.
As a Childfree Nigerian guy this is a problem I wish we have. Japan under population in a 1st world country is better than overpopulation in poor country. Imo 👍
Speak for yourself. Have you compared the size of Nigeria, or Africa, to the "1st world " size? Nigeria has more than enough to sustain her population. Look elsewhere for the problem.
While family sizes are still large in Nigeria, birth rates are declining. As people become more urbanized and women become more educated, the population reduces in all counties.
Because the world is not dying. You have been lied to by people with a political agenda. Look at the history of these claims. According to Al Gore, an inconvenient truth - all the polar bears died 5 years ago! It did not happen!
Very good question answer is the creator has the answer read bible what wears suffering is prophecy man cannot rule man only gods kingdom can and will bring love unity and everlasting life on earth
@@-whackd plastics just means malleable. We can have "natural" plastics. We see petrochemical ones because they're ridiculously cheap and highly available.
Yes hemp definitely needs to be utilized more. All packaging should be completely biodegradable, we absolutely have the technology to do it at this point.
Stress + poor diet + pollution + Pharmaceuticals and everything else are destroying all of us. Doctors had me on 14!!! different medications for several years. They kept saying I was getting worse so they would add another pill or increase the dosage of the ones I was already taking. Finally my son and I went on a sort of retreat together for 4 days and did a deep dive research into everything the doctors said I had and every medicine they had me taking. When we returned, I had every test imaginable done and put all the meds/Rx’s in box. Didn’t tell the doctors anything and even continued to fill the Rx’s so they wouldn’t suspect anything 😮 Also, changed my diet completely with a plan my son came up with. I started eating what he calls “single ingredient” foods. Nothing from a box or bag, only the freshest stuff I can get. Lots of protein, eggs cooked in real butter with real cheese, lamb, chicken, beef, venison, elk, antelope, fish (wild). Absolutely zero soy! Nothing with multiple ingredients I usually can’t pronounce and don’t know what they are. No seed oils of any kind, no sugar, no alcohol except a little red wine. Low carbs (no store bought bread) but not zero carbs. I eat from 11am to 5pm every day. 3 months later I had all the tests done again. Absolutely every test/level came back great all green. I had lost 51 lbs, 8” off my waist, BMI went from 28% to 14.5%, no more diabetes, no more pain, normal blood pressure, all symptoms were gone all without exercise! It’s been 4 years since then and my wife who is 24 years younger than me (I’m over 50) is very pleased and is in heaven 2 - 3 times a day 😮😂🎉🎉 I take zero meds, BMI is 12% and I’ve gained 20lbs of muscle. Life is good 😊😊😊 Cheers
This episode was Awesome!!! I appreciate the way she was very clear with her words, and made sure to not exaggerate, or create negative assumptions with the topics she spoke about.
The problem is that men today spend a huge amount of their time watching porn on the internet. As they watch weirder and weirder stuff on the internet, they become desensitized to sex. As they become desensitized, their sex drive collapses and their sperm count drops. The only solution for the individual man caught in this situation, if they wish to be able to perform again, is to totally give up porn. In about six months of abstinence, they will start to regain function. The choice is up to the individual, watch porn and become non-functional or abstinence from porn and regain function. Porn is a terrible pox upon mankind. It destroys the individual, it destroys the porn performers and it could destroy society. It should be banned.
They are with you forever. Only they have problems, only they have desires, only they and their children matter. Dear God if I had only knew then what I know now, no children. Yes 82 and still HAVING to live with my 45 year old son and my grand-daughter because of money - he spent all mine on fancy restaurants. He lies. He is abusive and horrible. God, take me home as I can't stand this man's abuse and I am so sorry he was ever born. No more children let them be with the World Government Group. They have nannies, maids, and don't have to "bring up" their children. Young people today, just don't have children, they are destroyers of your life.
@@stevegaines3590 We don't need more people paying into Social Security. We need the $160,000 income cap removed or raised so that those high income people pay enough to keep the system solvent. Takes just a stroke of the pen, but Republicans won't support this. They want to cut SS, which would ultimately result in far more homeless old people, but they don't care.
@@odonnelly46agreed we are intelligent enough to kick the can down the road but eventually you come up on limitations. The stress on natural resources with this kind of population eventually reaches a breaking point. Our appetite to consume knows no end. Humanity has always operated better in small tight knit communities. This decentralized individualistic approach simply doesn't produce people of good quality or character.
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I'm from Utah which has always had the highest birth rate in the U. S. It's still the highest in the nation at 2.1 children per household, but since the 80's until the last decade or so, it was 3.1 children. Culture and economics has definitely played a major role.
I would add, I feel I was underfeminized, by 'nature, chemical interupts, and lack of nurture', and also I was raised without much positive masculine or feminine influence. Maybe asperbers/autism/oddness just runs in my family though, it's hard to gain any meaningful perspective from inside it all.
Take heart people, we have a different "normal" than the following generations. I am a retired teacher and when I got into teaching, the profession was much like it was when I was in high school. There was respect for authority, and the system worked well. Over the years the system became lenient, soft, and low expectations of student behavior and responsibilities. Students were getting away with this. Most students were still good people but the bad ones could not be reigned in. My retirement years were much different from my starting years. My nephew is now a teacher but he does not have my reference point of "the golden years of teaching" and hence not jaded as I became near retirement. Your kids and grandkids don't know the good years you experienced and hence will not know what they're missing and how bad things have become. They have a different "normal" and hopefully won't despair in the hell hole we recognize things have become (including the teaching profession). I hope this helps your anxiety about your progeny. I know easier said than done. I too am concerned for my son and daughter.
Inflation comes and goes when things are in balance which is rare these days and is now a reflection of rich men’s greed, as corporations need/cause inflation to feed and grow their profits which helps juice their stock price and satisfy shareholders expectations and desire for wealth. As for taxes, perhaps a workable solution would be no tax for incomes under say, maybe $150,000/year per taxpayer or $250,000 per household/family of four and a flat 12% tax for everything above that exemption amount with no write offs or deductions for anything else except perhaps education & medical which is essentially how it is for some low income earners who don’t hold financial assets. End ALL lobbying by corporate and religious institutions, overturn Citizens United, institute taxpayer financed campaigns where all candidates receive the same amount of money to level the playing field, put a hard cap on campaign on any/all political spending - prohibit private and corporate money, clean up SCOTUS and place strict standards of ethics and code of conduct with accountability and stringent penalties along with term limits, strip religion from every office of government, returning to the Constitutional provision and remove phrase “under God” from pledge of Allegiance.
Men don't want to get married governments don't want to help families if you could fix those there might be enough babies I had two husbands both had low sperm counts I got pregnant 5 times. The thing that took exhausting effort was finding someone that wanted to be a husband d and fathers and the getting the resources to take care of the children.
In 1900, there were just over 1 billion people in the world, and look at how incredibly rich the culture was back then. Returning to that population level will create more space for everyone, including wildlife and nature. Today's cities are overcrowded and full of stress, there is a lack of open countryside, traffic and construction is almost everywhere.
@@beachdweller3378 That doesn't contradict what I wrote. People are moving to cities, places are being abandoned, but that has a marginal effect on overpopulation and total built-up area.
It’s sad because Ohio (where I live) had that spill a few months ago, which of course the media didn’t give a shit about till the people in the area started to yell and rightfully so, and we resorted to drinking bottled water. So where the hell are we supposed to get water from? Even in Fl where I’m from it’s an issue. Deerfield beach had a flesh eating bacteria in an apartment complex which according to a few people is still an issue… I’m convinced are infrastructure is about to collapse at the very least.
No its rly not accepting which is the first step to a content life. We dont want to accept ourselves and to get out of our comfort zone we have to face ourselves and see ourselves accuritely which means our sense of self is going to have to go out the window and we will have to face an existential crisis. So why do that why accept yourself if you can live contend in a fantasy. Its not that we think this conciously its more like we think we want to get out because we dont like it, but we dont want to get out because we dont want to face the sunken cost fallacy of all the pride we have invested into our sense of self and everything that proves it otherwise is dissmissed which turns into cognitive dissonance.
This explains why we have this Trans generation in America. This level of sexual identity confusion is at an all time high. Only magnifying the infertility problem. It needs to be destroyed like a malignant cancer, or we’ll be extinct sooner than later.
I only had 1 child because I knew that she was the only one I could reasonably raise by myself. Yes, she has a father, but never did he take any financial responsibility for her, either while we were married or after divorce.
Yes, and women who are single with children are completely demonized by society, often rejected by their own families. Society expects us to put up with abuse, humiliation and torture at the hands of men. Having children is like carrying chains around your neck in today's world. We will get discarded for sex robots and artificial wombs, anyway. Men will toss women aside, no matter what we do.
@@selat99Men lie and say anything and pretend to be anything for just long enough to get what he wants. Women do not just automatically know when a man is lying but life experience eventually teaches us to assume he is.
@@selat99 well holy ever-loving shit there are a lot of 'wrong' men out there, aren't there? you say that like 'wrong men' are like rare insects hiding under rocks and we dug around until we found him. ya'll simultaneously tell anyone who will listen that you think women should marry at 18, but they should also know how to pick a 'good man' and blame her when he turns out not to be. Ya'll say you want women who want to be mothers and stay at home with the kids, cook, clean and take care of you - but then turn around and degrade those mothers and tell them they're lazy and 'have it easy'. She's not supposed to place any importance on a man's finances - but when she marries the poor guy, and contributes to his success by sacrificing her own - he cheats, then acts like a total victim all over the internet (forever) when she cashes out in the divorce in any way at all, including any tiny amount of child support. All but a very few of you - are the wrong men.
Lack of self awareness, self respect and mindfulness is the reason why the world we live full of low vibration being, so lets rise our vibration, respect each other, being kind and wise.
Humanas are not endangered species. So it is ok if you decline in numbers. If the numbers go down too much, we can always revive it. Economy can go down, it will help the plant.
I'm worried about it all. It also affects other species. Industries are clearly a major culprit in that issue. A few greedy people replacing healthy products with artificial trash are literally ruining the future for short term profit but in the end, even them will fail to survive while they're ruining everything alive. But do they even care?
@@cd-ee9mf Your wet dream is being plotted by technocrats. Everything will be electronic. Electronic trees. Electronic rodents. Electronic humans. You'll be happy. Extinct, but happy.
The sperm count rate discussion is senseless to me. Fertility rates aren't down because sperm counts are down, they're down because people are making the conscious decision to have less children. This is a 99% cultural issue.
I agree because the people confident of giving offspring a decent standard of life opportunities are more likely to be economically better off, even if they end up as a single parent. It may seem unfair to those that would love a family but that is the reality. I do not think that under population is a concern to the governments right now, should it come to be so, they have enough scientific information to rectify and control populations, a real concern to me, how would it be used? Do governments have the right? Using economic strategy they are doing it now.
It’s a cultural issue that starts at the top, as the society has made survival stressful with the amount of labor required for basic life. We can’t even move forward to I fertility if no one wants to try.
