Libya without Gaddafi: 5 years of turmoil (Special Report)

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[–]allie 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yes. Quality of life is increased, mortality rates decreased, people have better lifes, love longer, have more kids then everyone has less and has a harder life. What gets me is now there is birth control and still people keep having more kids which guarantees things will get worse. I just don't get it.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What gets me is now there is birth control and still people keep having more kids which guarantees things will get worse.

Yeah that happens a lot in countries where children are seen as assets rather than liabilities. In a poor country, a child can help work the farm and stuff like that, and produce more income (especially where there are no child labor laws). Plus sometimes mothers can get income from the government they would only qualify for if they have a child. So there are a lot of incentives to have a child.

But the good news is that the more educated and developed a country comes, the more the birthrate drops. Like Japan is shrinking in population, and many other countries are too if you don't count immigration.

The world population is set to peak at about 10 billion and then it will be downhill from there. The fastest growth rate of world population was actually in the 1960s, and has slowed since then.

But a lot of people have children for the same reason animals have babies... because sex feels good, and many people are ignorant about birth control for various cultural and religious reasons.

[–]allie 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not a kid and as far back as I can remember they have been claiming world population would peak at a lower level and in a few years they'd come up with a higher number.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hm yeah, could be incorrect projections.

But see the pink line here, we've already slowed: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/updated-World-Population-Growth-1750-2100.png

We've been slowing down since 1960s, and that's a fact. The population now is growing less fast, both in raw numbers and as a percentage, than it was in the 1960s. We're slowing down.