It is not just Energy and it is not just Oil. Human behavior is involved.
And stupidity will be dealt with accordingly.
Quote from: monsta666 on Oct 26, 2024, 10:33 AMQuote from: RE on Oct 22, 2024, 08:40 PMHowever, economics doesn't explain the statistics, and the exploding percentage of recent generations to self identify as Lezzie-Gay-Bi-Tranny-Queers. Back in Boomer years it was ~1% of the population. Today it's >5%. That's a 500% increase. What do you attribute that to? Also, based on media TV, its even bigger than that. Every show has at least one or 2 main characters as some non-binary gender variant.
Being openly gay in the Middle East will get you the death sentence. Can you guess the number of people self identifying people as gay in that region? Almost 0%. What people say and what people do is two different things. When the stigma to identify as something other than heterosexual is less then more people will admit to alternative sexual orientations. I am guessing the true numbers is something in the region of 10% which is actually higher than the figure you quoted at 5%+.
Whatever the case, even if you run with my higher 10% figure this cannot explain the decline in birth rates which has gone down by over 50% since 1960 (in the US at least). Something else is at foot. My suggestion is those declines come from the increasing cost of childcare, less stable jobs and the lower social pressure to get married. These things factor higher than the rise in the LGBTQ community.