Sterilization
04-06-2011, 02:11 PM
Between the 1950's and the 1970's the global birth rate jumped 2.2%. That, when your dealing with a huge number, gives you a big number. Do 2.2% of 6.91 billion and you'll get 152,020,000. Just a bit over 152 million. 152 million more births annually than the previous. However by the time 1990 rolled around we actually went down 1.1%. Course, that's 1.1% of the current rate, which includes that 2.2%. Still, 1.1% isn't bad. Oh, the trend by the way is continuing.
More people are living longer healthier lives. This, unlike Reaganomics, actually has a trickle down effect. Affordable small housing is not going to the youth like it used to. It's much more desirable to have, say, an elderly couple in the neighborhood. Makes selling houses easier. Jobs are being held longer, making it harder to move up the ladder. Jobs are also going to the elderly, which are viewed as more stable and satisfactory workers than the youth. Hell, certain companies *cough*Target*Wallmart*cough* actually went out and hired older people for the specific plan of getting life insurance on them, and collecting it.
There's a reason the average parental age is actually increasing here in the West. There's multiple, and this is one of hundreds of factors. Today's expected age group for parents has risen, because the need to support and care for a child has become more difficult, and requires more time. We're told all the scary stories about teen pregnancies and crackbabies, but they're on the dive. Their dropping. The numbers aren't increasing (actually they are in areas where celibacy and forced parenthood are aggressively or exclusively taught and expected).
Point is, we're birthing less. Much less than we used to just 4 decades ago. We're having less kids now, than when I was born. By 2050 we're expected to have between 7.5 to 10 billion people. 40 years to increase 1 to 4 billion. Not bad when you consider that between 1960 and 2000, another 40 year gap, the global population nearly doubled, going from 3 billion and change to 6 billion and change.
Also interesting of note is that the death rate is increasing. Oh yes, more births = more deaths. Though people are living longer, more are dying every year. It evens out for the older ladies and gentlemen of course, but it leaves the younger world with the same struggle. But it evens out for the young too, they're much less likely to die from natural causes and accidents than they used to. 1 in 10 teens die. Children? Oh you used to have lots of kids, just for the purpose of having an extra around in case one died. You know, seven kids, 5 become teenagers, 3 become adults, 2 marry.
You want less kids born and straining the economy? You're getting it. But what to do with all them elderly, teenagers and toddlers that just refuse to die from influenza like they used to.
That's it, break through. The answer really was in sterilization after all! We just gotta stop sterilizing the inoculation needles. That'll keep the population strain down.
More people are living longer healthier lives. This, unlike Reaganomics, actually has a trickle down effect. Affordable small housing is not going to the youth like it used to. It's much more desirable to have, say, an elderly couple in the neighborhood. Makes selling houses easier. Jobs are being held longer, making it harder to move up the ladder. Jobs are also going to the elderly, which are viewed as more stable and satisfactory workers than the youth. Hell, certain companies *cough*Target*Wallmart*cough* actually went out and hired older people for the specific plan of getting life insurance on them, and collecting it.
There's a reason the average parental age is actually increasing here in the West. There's multiple, and this is one of hundreds of factors. Today's expected age group for parents has risen, because the need to support and care for a child has become more difficult, and requires more time. We're told all the scary stories about teen pregnancies and crackbabies, but they're on the dive. Their dropping. The numbers aren't increasing (actually they are in areas where celibacy and forced parenthood are aggressively or exclusively taught and expected).
Point is, we're birthing less. Much less than we used to just 4 decades ago. We're having less kids now, than when I was born. By 2050 we're expected to have between 7.5 to 10 billion people. 40 years to increase 1 to 4 billion. Not bad when you consider that between 1960 and 2000, another 40 year gap, the global population nearly doubled, going from 3 billion and change to 6 billion and change.
Also interesting of note is that the death rate is increasing. Oh yes, more births = more deaths. Though people are living longer, more are dying every year. It evens out for the older ladies and gentlemen of course, but it leaves the younger world with the same struggle. But it evens out for the young too, they're much less likely to die from natural causes and accidents than they used to. 1 in 10 teens die. Children? Oh you used to have lots of kids, just for the purpose of having an extra around in case one died. You know, seven kids, 5 become teenagers, 3 become adults, 2 marry.
You want less kids born and straining the economy? You're getting it. But what to do with all them elderly, teenagers and toddlers that just refuse to die from influenza like they used to.
That's it, break through. The answer really was in sterilization after all! We just gotta stop sterilizing the inoculation needles. That'll keep the population strain down.
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