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In reply to the discussion: Americans aren't making enough babies to replace ourselves [View all]democratisphere
(17,235 posts)89. Maintaining an American middle class life style, the carrying
capacity of our planet is about 2 billion people.
https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/how-many-people-can-earth-actually-support
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Immigrants have more vitality & energy than stay-in-place folk in US or the home country. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2019
#1
Not surprising as babies cost money to raise and millions of people are barely making it
cstanleytech
Jan 2019
#3
Exactly! If there's one thing we need to do over the next hundred years, it is reducing
Nay
Jan 2019
#27
I believe chinas total fertility rate is lower than ours +declining . Their one child rule although
lunasun
Jan 2019
#81
In addition, I assume more people see what childbirth looks like and are scared shitless.
Crowman2009
Jan 2019
#10
Not to mention that some people have lived in struggling households and don't want to replicate it.
Crowman2009
Jan 2019
#11
+I know a lot of coupleslike that who grew up in situations they are just still too close to being
lunasun
Jan 2019
#82
Well some people who make millions spend it on having lots of kids as opposed to expensive BS.
Crowman2009
Jan 2019
#67
Yes, I remember ZPG. I gave their successor organization, PopulationConnection.org my farm in 2016
progree
Jan 2019
#25
Considering the current state of affairs in America, I'd say this bodes well for the planet
Va Lefty
Jan 2019
#21
One of our children, our son and his wife, decided not to have children.
Cold War Spook
Jan 2019
#23
Lower the prices of formula, diapers, childcare, education, car insurance, Disneyland tickets
dalton99a
Jan 2019
#35
Life is becoming more and more complicated and a baby makes it even more complicated.
honest.abe
Jan 2019
#45
Question..How do you make "babies"?...Ooops ...that is not a topic for discussion in the "latest
Stuart G
Jan 2019
#55
I agree, but it's cheap labor that's most likely to replaced by automation
TexasBushwhacker
Jan 2019
#83
Not so. The sustainable carrying capacity of this planet is about 2 billion people.
democratisphere
Jan 2019
#77
Too bad there won't be any giraffes, tigers, elephants, bears, etc. sharing the world with us
Yeehah
Jan 2019
#93
We've pushed the planet into a mass extinction event not seen in milllions of years
NickB79
Jan 2019
#92