Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 29, 2024, 08:13 AMIt 'blows me away' that some people have a problem with this list.

Yea, I always thought the Georgia Guidestones had a pretty decent prescription for a sustainable population of Homo Saps.  I kind of modeled my 12 Principles on my Tombstone after them.  So far nobody has blown it up. lol.

I also find it kind of ironic that after decades of apocalyptic sci-fi featuring an overpopulated planet like Soylent Green that people have now become terrified that we don't have enough babies.  lol.  The terror of course mostly comes from Capitalists who can't fathom a world without Growth.  Population growth underpins all other economic growth, more people=more unit sales=more profit.  It's also the source of Power.  The more people under your control, the more powerful you are.

Ironic also that it's capitalism that is causing the declining fertility rate.  The fact that women had to join the capitalist workforce and leave their traditional work as homemaker and child bearer is why they now delay marriage and delay further pregnancy until there's really barely time left on the biological clock left to have even 1 child.  I was the 3rd child my mom had at age 28, and my parents both seemed old compared to parents of other kids my age.  Now, if a woman has a child at all, 30 is pretty young.

Of course there are plenty of other reasons also, declining sperm counts and less interest in having sex at all by the latest generation of social media and screen addicted teens and twenty-somethings has a lot to do with it also.  The economics are IMHO the driving force though, and the reason all the petitions and political movement and tax credits and Influencers begging people to have more kids are not going to work.  The big question mark is how society will deal with it in another decade or so when there just aren't enough working age people to fill all the drone jobs in our society.  Maybe the robots will be good enough to take over.  If there is enough energy available to keep them all charged up to do the maid service at the resort hotels.

RE