> fertility rates tend to fall below the level needed to maintain the population, 2.1 children per woman. Why 2.1 and not 2?
0.1 kids per woman are expected to die without procreating.
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#42> fertility rates tend to fall below the level needed to maintain the population, 2.1 children per woman. Why 2.1 and not 2?
Some percentage of children are going to die before getting a chance to have their own children.
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#43> No one really knows why birth rates are dropping so fast. [...] Many people have theories but if you critically examine them they fall apart. > [#1] People do not have money for kids. [#2] The Government isn’t Providing pro-natal policies. [#3] This is happening only in societies that are not religious. [#4] Women are working and not having kids. That seems like an incomplete list. For example, how about this one:…
Pro-natal policies are a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that basics like housing costs 10x more than with the previous high-baby-having generations
Also the standard of raising kids has risen a lot as well.
It is fairly easy to have a lot of malnourished illiterate children, but people choose to have healthy kids they send to college, which is a lot more time consuming and expensive.
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#45> No one really knows why birth rates are dropping so fast. [...] Many people have theories but if you critically examine them they fall apart. > [#1] People do not have money for kids. [#2] The Government isn’t Providing pro-natal policies. [#3] This is happening only in societies that are not religious. [#4] Women are working and not having kids. That seems like an incomplete list. For example, how about this one:…
https://news.ku.edu/2017/09/15/flint-water-crisis-led-lower-...
People need access to clean water without chemicals in it that led to lower fertility rates and higher fetal death rates.
Birth control pills put estrogen in the water supply: https://www.businessinsider.com/birth-control-pills-hormones...
These could be true or maybe misleading or half true? Chemicals from medicine that people take should be filtered out of the recycled water.
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#46What's surprising about people having less kids if the prevailing ideology in the west since many decades is basically malthusianism?
People are getting told from an early age that humans are a pest and that the world would be better off without them.
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#47> fertility rates tend to fall below the level needed to maintain the population, 2.1 children per woman. Why 2.1 and not 2?
"The United Nations Population Division defines sub-replacement fertility as any rate below approximately 2.1 children born per woman of childbearing age, but the threshold can be as high as 3.4 in some developing countries because of higher mortality rates. Taken globally, the total fertility rate at replacement was 2.33 children per woman in 2003"
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#48Fewer!
prescriptivist!
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Less pollution, less global warming, lower use of resources, less conflict.
Counties with declining populations tend to become industrial catastrophes. Japan and Fukushima come to mind. Russia does too. Russia and Ukraine both have abysmal fertility rates. I don’t see less conflict there. Or between China and Taiwan.
I doubt that that's a causality.
Japan isn't a catastrophe compared to any country with a rising birth rate.
And Fukushima was an accident caused by a natural disaster and human errors. More babies wouldn't have prevented that.
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#50> fertility rates tend to fall below the level needed to maintain the population, 2.1 children per woman. Why 2.1 and not 2?
To account for people who die before reproducing.