There are 8 billion people on Earth, but soon we’ll hit a decline we might never reverse | ABC News

OH NO!!!!! Another hyperbolic panic about population!!! This time, the prophets of doom are warning of population collapse!!!🙄 I have lived through so many predicted "Ends of the World", I stopped keeping count. If it once again became affordable to have larger families, people would start having them.

Through history populations stayed about the same until we managed to produce more food. Once we can surpass the amount of food we can produce the population will start rapidly growing again.

Don't worry they turned male fertility down

Agenda 21 has the plan

Sustaining capitalism requires more people and more resources exponentially ,and Sustaining our ecology requires less people and less exploitation of resources. We need to stop letting capitalism run government.

I hope we hit a massive decline and only 100,000 people survive.

Maybe government aid to Africa should be directed towards family planning and education?

Wasn't their 9 billion people on earth? Where did 1 billion people go?

Ive been to india and hated being there. Too many people!

Read Bricker & Ibbitson’s book. They argue convincingly population will max out at about 8.8b population, probably in the ‘40’s, then drop quickly. China alone will experience a population decrease of 600m by end of century. India’s fertility rate, too, is already below 2.1.

Solar, wind, electric cars, what's going to make a better planet? Condoms, condoms, condoms. The less people the better. Don't believe Musk and the other want-a-be visionaries, population decline is good news.

If India takes over having the highest population, think about how many thieving telemarketers there will be. 90% of phone scammers are Indian.

Good there’s nothing wrong with a decline

Many species, from lemmings to locusts to crabs to passenger pigeons, are known as boom-bust species, with wild swings in their populations. Are humans among them? One look at the exponential growth in the human population over the past 100 years should in itself be enough to suggest that rapid collapse may be imminent, but when you combine it with the knowledge we have about the devastating effects that humans have had on the biosphere, it seems naive to think that the future will follow current trends. Shouldn't we, Instead, consider a non-linear event? It is unpleasant, but I think it is more likely that we will see the human population peak within the next ten years at under 9 billion people. This will be followed by an accelerating collapse, the severity of which will depend on how the many adverse effects of climate change and ecosystem collapse interact to affect human activity. Heat, drought, floods, famine, and violence will further reduce fertility and greatly increase mortality. I would not be surprised if the global population declines to a few billion people by the end of the century. Some pockets may or may not have preserved some aspects of modern technology. The situation could be even worse if the chaos precipitates a nuclear war.

The 1960 s was a good time to have children , people were busy thinking about having a good time , and not thinking about war . You can not scare people into having children , by saying ,OH WE WILL KILL OURSELVES OF AS A SPECIES , IF WE DO NOT HAVE MORE CHILDREN . CONDITIONS HAVE TO BE JUST RIGHT FOR PEOPLE TO WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN , WAR IS NOT A GOOD CONDITION , DROUGHT IS NOT A GOOD CONDITION . HAVING CHILDREN YOU CAN NOT FEED , OR HOUSE , IS JUST PLAIN STUPID . NATURE WILL TAKE ITS COURSE , AND IT HAS BEEN SAID BEFORE , THE BEDROOMS OF THE NATION , IS NO PLACE FOR GOVERNMENT .

Plus, he does not know how to count. 1.425 is bigger than 1.417 so China still leads India....he needs a math class.

If the planet is ruled properly, then the world can easily support over one hundred billion people.

Yeah, it’s called the great reset. You guys know.

Wave if the comments read like they were written by bots👐

I am 69. I remember when USA was a NICE place to live and the world was significantly more peaceful

The solution is allrady on the way
In 2050 world population will be at a sustainable level


It's obvious what has to happen

Get rid of 99.99%

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12,5млн домов
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Kids are too expensive.

The problem with population decline is not the number of people getting too low, that number is arbitrary. It is how to feed everyone, with fewer strong backs to perform the labor. The answer is really very simple, it is the same that has brought us thus far in productivity: automation. Most of those "jobs" aren't things humans actually enjoy doing, so nobody is going to miss them when they are gone. The issue is how to adjust our income and distribution models from those in which human labor is the primary source of income to enable consumption, to something else. In developed economies, energy will supplant human labor as the primary input. Industry will have to accept that if they want customers, they will need to find some way to enable them to afford their products, which doesn't require performance of menial labor. Also, the projections featured might as well be wild guesses, nobody knows what new trends will emerge.

The population will keep earth a bit more warmer with the solar minimum up coming to really peak 2025.

Most important factor in lower birth rate is detail education

as a two minium wage family who is just barely able to keep sub starderd housing a child would be a disaster that could likley end in homelessnus

Good. It will be a better place with a lot less of us

Great piece. But Amanda Smith's vocal fry was quite off putting.

Remember this is their way of saying they need to depopulate us

Why are you surprised by the population today? If you compare the number of humans to the number of ants in this world? Allah has given us an example of everything in the Qur’an, but man is the most controversial until the events of the ancients come to him or he sees the torment approaching.

Then you can think of an amount which is innumerable.. you will be able to solve innumerable problems with that...ee value 1 currency contribution monthly akkukkayanenkkil you can solve each and every problem in the world globally within a short span of time
Palathulli perruvellam concept

Allenkill Bali pole okke sthalathunnu issue varrun

It should be like this..a person from India should contribute Rs.1 .. while a person from USA should contribute 1$...allenkil exchange rate issue varrum
A person from UAE should contribute 1 darham,a Saudi person 1 riyal angane

Note the main problem of EVERYTHING that is wrong with this world .. TOO MANY PEOPLE!

This whole thing is bull crap these Erpopeaans are just too much there all ways up to something this whole overpopulation thing is just made up do you know how long people have been on earth ?

To understand the thinking of elites just follow the money. No crisis (covid) is allowed to exist if it doesnt make them rich.Take inequality (banned) for example.

Young people need to sacrifice so old people can live longer

Thank God the population is becoming stable. But mostly America Europe and China is not enough. People will be fine with fewer workers.The world will simply develop new ways too harvest. Like old people can work part time.

I live in ny. I ride a bike. A tricycle. To work. Gardener landscape for 23 years. By 64 I am 150 pounds.Solid as wood. As my peers fall apart obese. I never has children. The future was and is too risky.

I’d see Bricker & Ibbitson. The UN’s numbers lag. Population will peak at about 8.8 billion, in the 2040’s. By end of century population will be plummeting. China alone will drop by 600 m., assuming current census numbers are not exaggerated.

Already 500+ million reduction since 2020.

poors are good in one thing making more babies despite conflicts, famine, politically instability this specie will multiply more

The decline in population is going to be a big problem. The capitalist system is a Ponzi scheme. It needs constant growth to work. And if everyone on the planet gets beyond reproductive age, aren’t we extinct within 50 years?

Abortion needs to be removed and that’s is illegal

We’re overpopulation and the climate change and antinatalism is already here!!!!!!! Right now

I hope it starts decreasing soon, and greatly. We cannot keep this up.

99 percent of all species that ever lived are extinct .
We are now seeing early signs of being added to that list.

Man will reproduce as the food supply allows. Not unlike other species

More Fake Truth.