The Epidemic Nobody Sees Coming: Sexless Men, Population Collapse & Fertility Crisis | Shanna Swan
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On Today's Episode:
Until now, you probably haven’t associated infertility with the collapse of our global population. From the U.S. to India, to South Korea, Canada, the U.K. and more, fertility rates are reaching critical levels. Humans now meet 3 criterias for being an endangered species.
If that doesn’t have you totally rattled yet, our guest today, Dr. Shanna Swan, epidemiologist best known for research she published in 2017 which set off alarms and caught the attention of major media and scholars around the world, joins Tom to highlight the many factors contributing to a 50% drop in fertility rates, testosterone, and reproductive function.
Shanna’s work quickly became the world’s 26th most referenced scientific paper, and her latest book, Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, delivers a less than optimistic view of guaranteed economic population collapse.
The information Dr. Shanna shares brings up major concerns for the future of humanity as a species and for our current health.
Chemicals leading to our extinction have some government incentivizing people to have sex and procreate.
- Women’s education and rights to contraception, and urbanization are contributing to women’s lack of interest in birthing 5 and 6 kids.
- Endocrine disrupting chemicals are nearly unavoidable as they’re in what you eat, drink and breathe
- The under masculinization of males is an actual problem impacting their lifespan
- Lifestyle factors are part of this conversation and include obesity, stress, binge drinking, and poor metabolic health
Shanna gives a masterclass on phthalates, a chemical found in plastics that make them softer, helps products be more absorbable, holds scent and color better in everyday products we’re accustomed to using, and she shares a simple poem to help you identify safer recycled plastic options. Looking at the number on your plastic bottles, commit this to memory…
“5,4,1 and 2 all the rest are bad for you.”
Resources Mentioned:
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson
Consumer Guide to Safer Products: www.ewg.org/consumer-guides
World bank fertility data: data.worldbank.org/indicator/...
Check out Dr. Shanna Swan’s books, Count Down: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...
QUOTES:
“If a couple is infertile, where the man is infertile and his sperm count is low, his health is impacted.”
“Men with low sperm count and men who could not conceive a pregnancy will die younger, they have a shorter life expectancy.”
“The phthalate syndrome in humans is an incomplete masculinization of the male genital tract.”
“This is not an equal opportunity problem, [...] people who are stressed, disadvantaged, socially challenged in various ways are going to be hit much more.”
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The Real crime against humanity is Overpopulation due to selfish breeding caused Rampant Inflation which caused everyone who is not a Multi-Millionaire to be forced to live a lower quality of life and also everyone including the Billionaires are poisioned due to earth being poisioned due to overpopulation due to selfish breeding. The people who grew up in the 1950s had the best quality of life because the planet wasn't so grossly overpopulated then.
Selfish breeding caused rampant inflation. Overpopulation due to selfish breeding is the root-cause of the worlds worst problems. Breeders don't give a crap that their selfish spawning causes mass shootings, rampant inflation, pandemics, climate change, noise pollution, wars, and less resources for the masses and so higher costs for the masses which caused Millions to become homeless. Basic Economics. Breeders either are not smart enough to understand the law of Supply vs Demand or they don't give a crap about anybody except themselves.
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Let your GUESTS TALK, and stop constantly interrupting them to make sure you get your point of view in 🙄
Well thanks to #MeToo this will never be solved. you see, once you have a social movement to reclassify all precursor activities that relate to dating, relationship formation and marriage as "sexual harassment", "sexual assault" and "rape" you should be surprised no one is fcking anymore. Add in the negative impacts of dating apps, modern feminism, instagram culture and absurd standards held by modern women and it all starts to make sense. In the dating app reality you better have six pack abs, make a six figure salary and be a minimum of 6ft six feet tall lol. Otherwise forget about it modern women are disgusted by real average men. Who wants to be bothered with all that BS? Men have options and it doesn't take alot to make us happy, we can do without.
Sperm count is less relevant than the death grip of economic pressure forcing young people to reject a future family. Rents are too high, house prices out of reach, wages too low, future looks bleak. Intentional celibacy; rejecting dating;
Plus justice disadvantaging men (That btw get scared)
@@Dolcesangue Yes in regard to access to the child,.
You summed it up perfectly. The obscenely high cost of living leaves not enough money left to financially afford to raise children now.
@@LavenderFlush And it is horrifying that the same class of politician who have enriched themselves through this growing inequality are the same people that are now complaining about the drop in fertility rates.
This started in 1971, when the government went full FIAT. You are being constantly robbed and the proof is the cost of housing.
I just spoke to a guy yesterday who was telling me about a house that sold for $180K twenty years ago in Texas that was now worth $1.4 million. My income hasn’t increased 7 times since 2003. Who the hell can afford children?
Right? I'm not that old, but when I was in my early 20s, the min wage was $3.95! Now it not even double that, at $7-something. In the south, there are jobs that actually pay $10/hr. Where is the rent that matches that wage?
Go on welfare you can afford them
@@jgfjhg-co7iq I live in the forest and bathe in the lake, and it only costs me about 160$ per year to maintain my off grid home that costed 45k. just kidding
IT salaries are the exact same they were 20 years ago
@@JM-rr3qwActually sold ny home, moved onto a sailboat and my monthly is $200
Children need to be with parents who want them, period.
My parents didn't want me, I'm convinced of that. My dad started telling people when I was in my mid 30's that he and I were best friends growing up...I have always had to save people from my dads verbal diarrhea and cluelessness. He stole over 1.7 million dollars from my step mother and her mom and then divorced her when the money ran out. I helped her get away from him and he still to this day tries to punish me for helping her survive after his abuse. Toxic people need to be outed.
TWO PARENTS! PERIOD!
We need to stop putting period after every sentence. Period.
@@adrianm296 What we need to stop...accounts with zero content commenting on what we need. Bring something to the table.
@@Ackermanmedia What does having content on CZcams have to do anything? You say that like it's some indication that a person doesn't bring anything of value to society lol. If anything often the opposite is true, hence not enough time to start a channel but time to watch and comment on other's content.
I don't have content either, but some of my comments push the 10k character limit fairly often. I'm not even sure what my upload speed is but not long ago it was insanely slow, even standard definition videos like 30 seconds long could take an hour or something like that, so a lot of it was just slow upload living in the country.
I lived aboard a sailboat for 15 years, sailing the world, it was a magical time. I have seen first hand the increase in microplastics in the oceans, no surprise that fish are becoming toxic to eat now. Further, as a landlubber now, I see the chemicals destroying the soil, directly or through air pollution, and poisoning the food chain. No surprise to me we are killing ourselves, fertility as well. Further, i had a vasectomy at 30, in my mind I never wanted kids, still don't, and at 72 no regrets, a personal choice. I followed my wanderlust heart. Life is not a dress rehearsal. Live large.
Nope, you never saw any of that about microplastics. Nope, you haven't seen chemicals destroying the soil. As for life being a 'dress rehearsal', you decided to live in a one-man play about yourself instead of living the real life.
@@jonathandewberry289 Please wake up! Now in my late sixties, I have lived a 'regular' life and have observed what danmcmurry describes. That's a sweeping statement and there have also been some apparent improvements but increasing pollution is - alas - real.
@@htimsid He hasn't observed those things and neither have you. You haven't been seeing 'microplastics' ever. Not once did you go to the beach and notice such a thing. Nor have you observed an increase in pollution. You have not seen such a thing in your entire life.
You've actually lived in a time when pollution has been decreasing and cleaning up pollution (from previous eras) but cleaning it up has been increasing.
So, nope, alas, it isn't real at all but only your imagination.
Be grateful you happened to be born and lived in a very rare time when society was so wealthy it could afford to reduce pollution.. really.. just afford to care about it enough to even start measures at all.
You were blessed to live in such a time. lucky, undeserved. be grateful.
@@jonathandewberry289 Apparently unless you live the way most sheeple live, you are living a fake life?
Living the dream
As a millennial, I can hardly afford myself. What would make me think I can all of a sudden be able to take care of another life? Two income houses have difficulty making ends meet.
As for fertility... well, look at what we put in our bodies and all the chemicals companies just dump to save money. The only people who can fix this is people at the top, but that would require them to not take bribes.
Society/the economy makes basic living so unaffordable why WOULDN’T birth rates be declining. 😂 Another reason why capitalism is trash.
Buddy, I feel you, trust me, a lot of people do, but here's the counter argument
How do poor people have more kids? How did your ancestors made it? Are you sure you aren't better of than your ancestors?
(Really, even if you are worried about not being able to supply what others deem you have to, If you're morally driven and a good guy that can make it, you CAN make it)
@@Pedro_Alcantara Problem is women can destroy all of your efforts via the legal system, instantly. They are also rewarded to do so.
@@shin-ishikiri-no Well...they are TOLD that they will be rewarded...whether they are or not is a moot point.
@@nickbarber2080 They are rewarded, but the reward depends on the man she tricked into marriage and the size of his wallet, or the length of his list of assets.
Having kids, is one thing, supporting them, is a whole different ballgame.
Spoken like a man 🙄
I don't see how how anyone can raise a child without making a decent salary! And not all of us are fortunate enough to have well-paying jobs that are sustainable. Or any jobs, for that matter! (Presently unemployed yours truly!)
You don't need alot of money to raise one child. Parents spoil their children with all the latest and greatest of everything, and it doing so they are teaching them the worst lesson in life...and that is intimacy is attached to materialism. The most valuable things are free. Time, bike rides, hiking, swimming are all free.
@@Radiatoron88
You have kids and you figure out how to pay for things.
The lack of money makes it harder but it is still very possible.
The real question is it fair to the children?
My kids are just reaching adulthood.
They are all doing pretty well.
They all have some anxiety about their future, but that is pretty normal for most people.
@@mariabeckwith3336 The costs of healthcare, food, clothing, and post-secondary education are "considerable," to put it mildly, so if you don't have a good job or other income that pays decently, good luck with trying to raise children. I was lucky in that my father was an executive who made a decent--though not anywhere near "rich"--salary, and so he was able to support his family. But even so, money "issues" always furrowed his brow, and it often seemed to me like money was something that was very often a serious matter. I agree with you though that bike rides and time were mostly free--well, you'd have to buy a bike, of course. But as a "boomer," yes, I know what you're talking about. Just being free from school in summer vacation was a great joy. Time to walk, run, shoot baskets, throw a baseball back and forth, ride your bike, climb a tree, hang out with your friends, and so on--all free and enjoyable pastimes. No "screens" beyond TV and movie theaters at that time, so no people walking around transfixed like zombies by their "smartphones," or endlessly playing video games. I'm very grateful that I grew up in a place and time when kids had more of a life outdoors, not just a "screen-focused" existence! Oh, let's not forget one more great joy that didn't cost much money--books! I was lucky to grow up in a home where there were always lots of books around, so I became curious about them, and eventually became an avid reader like the rest of my family. The whole "Wizard of Oz" series was such fun when I was young!
Whats the incentive of having children in todays world. I can barely afford to take care of myself. I cant imagine taking care of a child in this piss poor world
Child tax credit that gets less and less each year because inflation hates you and wants you to suffer.
As a man who was forced to study history in school and watches the news . I think having children is stupid
We had two children, about thirty years ago and it almost killed us... now, those two kids are childless in a world of intense contest.
I have always said that. People don't think about The implications. Of the world that they are raising their children into.
@@derek4412 you are crazy !. Having 3 kids
Why did it almost kill you?
@@monhousebienesraices9033 good question, because my first child was born two months after we were married, and less than a year from the time we met ...our families abandoned us, and even abused us. We persevered, and today we're married for forty two years, managed to change countries to raise, educate and keep safe our son and daughter❤
@@michaelrodriguez3329 Having a family and kids is the new counter culture!
My great grandmother had 7 kids, grandmother 3 kids, mother 2 kids, me at 38 yrs old, 1 kid. That’s a sharp decline.
My grandparents each set of grandparents had 10 kids
My parents had 4 kids
My siblings and I each only have one and seem done
Similar, but my parents had 1 and I have no clue
Grand parents had 4, parents had 7, I have 9
My grandparents each had 5+ siblings, my parents had 3 kids, I had 2.
I'm 38 I won't be having kids it's too expensive.
8+ billion people..... nope, we don't need more people!
It’s not lack of sex, men don’t want to be fathers. A family cost a lot of money!
Men are cheaters. Who has time for that? Not me. Childfree for life.
As mentioned, the issue of fertility is not only a chemical problem, but is more so a cultural problem: Less men want to raise families in today's society, less women want to have children in favor of independence
Exactly that's how me and my ex are we are still friend's but we don't want kids or to get married I am definently having neither. Because of our shitty family members why bother? It's heartbreaking but oh well. We both feel like we would be shitty parents to.
More men want men more women want women everyone else is confused about gender so humanity is over we will not survive the next 100 years. Thanks liberals
Yeah nobody seems to talk about that- It’s just one more thing that men and women are SUPPOSED to do… People can see the world and how it is…Maybe we’re not supposed to keep going as a species as is.
Women are no longer trading being a brood mare with decades of abuse from cheating/downlow/violent XY's.
There. Fixed it for you.
@@MaggiebenjeeEXACTLY 🤭
You only need one sperm. But to nurture that child requires a stable job, a secure roof, and for at least 18 years of optimism that the things you can provide you can sustain.
Well SAID
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Why would anyone bother with that is beyond me. The only credit I give to having kids is it's a birth right to reproduce but why anyone would think it's a good idea in their thinking to have kids in this day is beyond me
It takes a village to raise a kid. Just that the village no longer exists.
Optimism being the most important. Kids are strong and don’t need much else.
I'm married, biggest mistake I ever made... Most people (men AND women) better off without without.
My marriage was the biggest mistake of my life too. Been single for 19 years now, life is better.
Wow. That's sad
I never have found the right partner ( have a boyfriend who might be right) but my happiest friends did and have been married 45 plus years or more. They complete each other. My parents were married 70 years and died at 90. Marriage with the right person is wonderful.
i just learned most of my live relationships were TB. i even reconciled with ex as the dating pool over 50 is thin. i rather free roll than dealing with fabricated drama.
This is shocking! I knew about the negative impact from plastics on humans and males specifically, but this interview opened my horizont dramatically.
Thank you Shanna Swan!
As a millennial with a degree in demographics and economics, I can tell you without a doubt my generation is having less kids due to high cost of living. Our debt based, consumption driven, ponzi banking, flat currency scam etc.. is ruining society. Women being forced to work in order to keep their family from living on the streets has created negative effects on society at large. We could start with lowering taxes for those who are or planing on restocking the population of our species. It's hard to believe that governments haven't started to help in some way. Must be to busy gathering power with this 15 year wealth transfer we are experiencing.
Conservatives don't care. They need more cannon fodder to keep their outdated ponzi schemes going.
Based!
Your generation is just more lazy and more selfish. Anything else is just looking to justify their choice of not having kids.
The Great Reset wants steep depopulation and eventual total compliance into transhumanism. It’s in their white papers.
Thats half of it, the toxic chemical environment is also wreaking havoc on peoples reproductive system and ALL systems. When ADD started really taking off, people said "Wallll, we're just counting it more" but I was hearing from teachers of 'everyday shit' that we NEVER saw, even from weird kids. But for the 'conscious' part of it, I think you'd have to be INSANE to look at the world today and want to bring more people into it.
Every time a woman has a child she becomes dependent. She is either dependent on someone else for income as she cares for her child or she is dependent on someone to care for her child while she works for income. Biologically the difference between the genders is that women carry and, give birth to children. If we go by nature, women feed babies and children her milk, which means she is close to them in the early years. Economically we make having children mean women are economically at a disadvantage because we do not value women by paying them what this production is truly worth. I am a grandmother and I see my daughter and her peers that have children struggle under the load of expectation to be in the workforce and to have children too. This expectation on our women is unrealistic. I hear young women not wanting children at all. We are where we are as a society because we have valued the wrong things and we need to address this issue and economically value women that carry, birth, and nurture children. Our future depends on it . Many women struggle when they leave their babies to go to work. Women want to be valued.The profit before people has a big part in the rest
Excellent!
And obviously being a women is a lot easier in many aspects than being a man. Albeit you lack the drive that men do as well as the touch of excellence.
theres no reason for people to be living under financial stress during times when AI can replace lots of jobs out there. children are important for the future. people should try to have children as early as possible since your likely to be in better health as compared to an older age. as you age, the body builds up toxins and bacteria and it affects the offsprings as well.
its fine if men and women dont attach or like each other but the least we need is children being created at a young age to keep humanity continuing. if reincarnation is real, i would rather be reincarnated as a human than some other animal which will die in a painful way.
@@jameslave98 you don't even know how to spell correctly much less how to run your life. It's not "albeit" its I'll bet. YEAH YOU DON'T NEED KIDS STAY INFERTILE
@@jameslave98 Wow. You are so ignorant.
Simple solution is to go back to cardboard containers for milk, juice, etc.
Cardboard is lined with plastics to make watertight. Tbh hdpe is not a danger as far as i know, pet leaches but hdpe is a fairly safe plastic
Glass
Empty the planet i'm pissed at this point.
The problem is the smarter I get the less attractive it makes the breeding pool.
not just that, we have new "vaginocapitalism" where vagina is used not as reproduction tool, but as social lift; and that destroys society, because it leads to scarcity of resource; as result vaginas are not working enough in our population, and it gives bunch of health problems - tissues die, degrade on cellular level, up to the increased cancer probability and subsequent elimination of womb and breasts surgically; vaginocapitalism destroys both men and women, so don't look at it as "matriarchy"; and all the deviations today essentially support vaginocapitalism; masturbation is a deviation
Script of Ideocracy.
OMG very well said!! I completely agree.
Just go to places where smart people gather if you want a smart partner my guy. But make sure you work on yourself so you are marriage material if you want a relationship
you have a problem - look inside not outside
There are people choosing to not have kids these days that would impact the birth rate, doesn't mean they're infertile.
It's the lack of DESIRE to procreate
@Mocha Mommy yeah im 23 and have no desire for children. Most of the reason is im emotionally detached. Too much stress when we have emotions to be honest.
I’m 100% infertile because I got fixed at age 27. That’s was well over a decade ago and I still believe it was a very good decision for my emotional and financial wellbeing.
There will always be people with no desire. But increasingly as such there are people guilted out of it.
@@HigherDarkness 23 is still super young tho
It is to expensive to have children period
Beeing childfree is a blessing in this sh!ty era we live in
When I saw the thumbnail I thought for a second that it was Robert Greene 😂
Based vatnik
What are you being blessed with?
@@BlueMountainSports freedom, money, time mostly
Rather than breed more humans as a slave workforce for the economy, remake the economy and rethink way of life. Focus on quality of life, not quantity and ceaseless production, which is unsustainable.
Hey you stupid economists, you say the economy will shrink? Well I'm a chick who has studied zero economics in her life and have a suggestion for you: figure out a way that we can have our cake and eat it too! I'll be waiting. You stupid economists who keep assuming we need growth and that productive humans produce wealth.
Exactly, who are we upholding this economy for? Who does it serve? We need to rethink it altogether
Agree.
Great point! You think outside of the box 📦.
Facts.
"When an organism perceives its environment as hostile, it chooses immortality. When it perceives its environment as friendly, it chooses reproduction." A quote from the movie "Lucy" that seems relevant to this discussion topic. I think generally men are increasingly recognizing the environment as hostile to them quite frankly (relationship risks including having children are not perceived as worth it).
I've heard this argument a lot more recently too. I for one will always chose to preserve myself over staring a family with even an ounce of uncertainty, if I do I'm subjecting them to the same life, crushed by corporations, taxes and political crooks. Or they leave and you're left with emptiness. I've grown up around it, and seen it all my life.
Damn y'all are so bleak😂 sorry everything is so horrible for you. Get off the internet for a week. Go hiking read a novel for fun. You have filled your mind with shit and it needs to take a dump😊
Damn, nailed it. That's so true. I'm taking good care of myself, because the odds of having a decently happy kid are higher if I wait out this narcissistic self-destructive civilization. The chances of having a downie during the last half of my life are lower than the chances of having my kid offing him/herself when it's found out what this world is.
It's not just men.
Personal survival dynamics avoid conflicts reproduction is seen as conflict.
population decline, rise, stagnation and extinction, regardless of cause (self inflicted or not), is all part of the natural process 👍🏻
All of this can be explained by: Money is the problem.
The greed of those at the top...
No, it isn't. Culture is.
@@koschmx They are so poor that children become a neccessity again. They are basically a living retirement fund.
We can "afford" to not have children, but we cannot afford to raise them well.
@koschmx Yes, because they have a radically different culture.
@@koschmx Thats the thing in poor countries: your retirement fund is your children.
They told us in the 1990s at school, don't have sex. So we don't. I'm 38, and proud to say I don't have any kids or relationships.
Now they get drag shows in schools we have come full circle lol
its best to have kids as early as possible. the younger you are, the more likelier you are to be healthier since bacteria and toxins build up in the body as you age. after you reach 30, its best to not have children.
Unlike most people you are intelligent for abstaining from parenthood. There are absolutely no advantages to being a parent, it is a miserable as Hell existence of work work work and more fucking work and stress. By abstaining from parenthood one is making one's life easier.
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO we’ll see if you feel that way when your 70.
@@joejohnson3814 I am resolute in my opinion on parenthood. Unlike vast majority of people I am immune to loneliness, my experiences of life have toughened me up, as I was born into some very dire circumstances. I cherish my freedom which is priceless. It is utterly stupid people who throw away their life of freedom for a life of misery that comes from being a parent. Fact is that the lives of child-free people are considerably easier than that of parents, so those who make their lives considerably difficult by becoming parents can only be considered stupid.
The working class were never meant to be happy, just productive and law abiding. Life is way too stressful. The non-stop spam calls and junk emails. Getting employment becomes a job with scammers pretending to be employers. Dating sucks, boomer parents can't understand our woes and work is psychological warfare. No children or marriage in my future. I have to schedule time with friends instead of being able to relax out out of leisure. Wage stagnation, high cost of living, high healthcare costs, high student loan debt and high costs for healthy food eats up 90% of our budgets. I regret being born. GOOD LUCK!
There was no working class before Agriculture
You have room in your budget for food? Nice.
Yes they where happy, for a time. Untill someone noticed they can diminish the working class
@@julianskinner3697just starvation.
Just a bundle of joy.
We have over 7billion people on the earth we are not endangered
none of those people will be there in 100 years
True. It's all fear mongering. Humans are perfectly capable of reproducing. The problem is convincing modern women that child bearing should be a priority. Most women are infected by feminism. That is the true reason for decline in populations. Women are more focused on their careers. They have lost the natural affection they used to have.
You don't understand. We are having few babies and people are living to be old. In 20 years when the old start dying in huge numbers there will be empty houses all over unless migrants replace the population and if they do, their own countries will be empty.
@@pincopallino8176Good. We don’t deserve what we have.
Global demographics aren’t good, over the next hundred years significant population decline is very real.
Anytime I See Younger People With Little Kids I feel SO Sorry for them . Also Wonder How the Parents Think the World Their Children will Inherit will be anything But F'd Up .
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Life has never been a trip to the spa, not now, not 10,000 years ago, not 100,000 years ago. What do you think is the life of the mice in my garden, considering that our cat catches one of them every now and then? If they had your state of mind, they would probably become desperate and stop reproducing, instead they just keep going and may end up outliving us. Think about it.
Here's a gentler response: I think you have fallen into the "nihilistic trap". Get out of it or it will devour you. Remember Doris Day: "Qué será, será, whatever will be, will be, the future is not ours to see, qué será, será." THAT is the essence of life. Those who don't have children have already lost in the game of evolution, they don't get us anywhere.
We’ve lived without plastics before. It’s called glass containers. We need to look no further that Ohio disaster to know how bad the “plastic revolution” was when everyone was shamed into taking plastic over paper when at the end of the grocery story checkout.
Everything in that paper bag is still plastic packaged food, even the boxed items have a plastic inner wrapper.
Glass is fragile, I can get a pack of 42 water bottles that I can carry for like 3 bucks, to get that many glass waterbottles would cost a lot more, be much heavier and one slip up and there's glass everywhere. There are alternates to plastic being creates now adays but it takes time to scale them up. One of the coolest I've seen is containers made from plant fiber, I have multiple bowls made from wheat and rice husk, they are plastic and chemical free, they are freezer and microwave safe, biodegradable and non toxic.
75, and never questioned having a child at 23. If I was of this generation I would not have children.
How comes?
@@jayo3074 cause men don't make enough to pay for everything the family needs. So the women need to be providers. So if they do have children, they don't actually get to be nurturers, because the state does that now. Everyone just gives their babies away to the state to be tormented and used by a system from hell.
@@jayo3074 Because.
AI will replace so so many jobs....
So much chemistry in our food, which often has hormonal functions in our bodies. I have PCOS and I had a son through IVF.
I think we are too many people on this world.
Well, kinda late on this, but I’m 70 and I’m still on the job. I’m working hard every day. Yup my hard does not go away.
I'm also 70. I'll have to work until I drop. Can't afford to ever retire
@@ral1020 same here 74 still working (France)
75 and still working harder than ever…because it’s harder than ever to physically keep myself on track on the job.
Greed. People don’t want to have to fight the fight anymore. The 1% want most of us gone, and it’s happening. It’s not just phylates, believe me.
Yes, and Jordan Peterson's argument that in times of the dragon, raise dragon slayers is a lame comeback.
I believe the elite already have the stuff needed to replace the bottom 50 percent and they are not just releasing it yet they are waiting for us to die off.
Yes....💀💀💀💀💀
Why would anyone listen to that shill..
They are putting chemicals in our tap water to make men more feminine it is sad this world is sick
Honestly with so many current crisis, it's hard to worry about something that will happen 50/100 years from now. I rather take a more stoic approach to such subjects to protect my own mental health.
Put women back in the kitchen bois
Yeah, but this is a real crisis. Clear, genuinely modelable, and media is not covering it so we know it is real. To fix? start by stopping the pay gap lie.
There have always been problems. WWI, WWII, the Great Depression, the gasoline shortage of the 70s, the Cold War, the Savings and Loan scandal of the 80s. The birth of the internet, Social media start, 9-11 and the loss of our privacy, COVID. The 2008 mortgage crisis. Higher incidence of insulin resistance and diabetes leading to inflammation and cancer.
Problems have always been here. The problem is that we are much more aware now than ever before or problems.
My suggestion to everyone in the U.S. is to get away from the T.V., social media, CZcams, and start saving money, start walking, be friendly, and meet your neighbors.
You know...fundamental stuff.
Never before have people been told to not have children like this
yeah, but given that this is something that may take three generations to solve, by the we address it, it's going to be pretty damn late.
Anyway. This isn't a 50 years from now problem. In many places it is a now problem. Africa is the only place in the world that is at replacement levels today and fertility is drooping sharply even there.
Research from the UK and U.S. suggests that women who don't marry or have children are consistently the happiest group in the population. Children are fabulously expensive and time consuming. Ain't nobody got the time and money for that.
Someone had time and money for you.....
The process of growing and learning in life does sometimes not make one constantly happy...
@@lotusleila5281 were they miserable?
News Flash : We learn the most through suffering...
@@thereagauze who?
For her age, she is the sharpest and most coherent intellectual I have ever seen.
Yep, 104 years old and she still sharp as a tack.
Actually, she's 88. Born 1936
@@Engagenumberone You some kinda bean counter.???
Here's a hot (probably wrong) take. People are voting with how happy they are with the direction of humanity with the amount kids they decide to have
Not a hot take. This is being engineered by our ruling class of eugenicists
@@nattykadifa2856 corporate greed about sums it up .. play your part by being self sufficient .. wherever humanely possible.
Products in a capitalist democracy are made to be sold not to be used ..
Make your own sh*t! or learn how to freely whilst you still can!
As Terence Mckenna put it - "Make your OWN roadshow!"
exactly.
This mouse utopia shit is driving ppl insane.
we were not meant to live like this.
Voting for the demise of your bloodline to be replaced by 3rd world country immigrants sounds brilliant
Hot take, people are more self-centered / social media centered to develop enough mentally for parenthood. Also, they now have other things to do during the long winter nights
This woman is almost 90 years old and is STILL sharp as a tack intellectually. Impressive.
She is 87 years old , born 1936😊
@@hectorappertie.6944 I guessed she was around 70. She looks and acts so youthful.
Sleepy Joe should take whatever brain pills she's on.
By that age she has a lot of life experience and can foretell the future easily. When old people warn me of the future consequences of my current actions I always take them seriously. That's why I have no regrets.
She's only 37 but is vegan.
I can't believe I haven't watched until now.
Huge wealth of information.
This is so ridiculous, such a tiny slow down in population growth should not be a problem with appx 8 billion people inhabiting a not so huge planet.
It’s sad because Ohio (where I live) had that spill a few months ago, which of course the media didn’t give a shit about till the people in the area started to yell and rightfully so, and we resorted to drinking bottled water. So where the hell are we supposed to get water from? Even in Fl where I’m from it’s an issue. Deerfield beach had a flesh eating bacteria in an apartment complex which according to a few people is still an issue… I’m convinced are infrastructure is about to collapse at the very least.
when would i ever have the time to get a girlfriend and get married, have kids, raise kids. there's no time, i need all of my time to make money just so i can survive
It takes a 2 income family. Don't forget your partner makes money too.
@@zhinan888 I don't know a single married man who saved money by getting married
I was married, I paid all the bills, did ALL the housework, all the cooking, all the yard work, all the car maintenance, all the utilities etc etc..
She worked , so she had money.
This is the typical American relationship, the man gets used, abused and treated like a disposable utility with no value as a person.
I got laid off my high paying job, took two full time jobs and still did all the housework.
I wanted children she didn't so we had none.
She left when I lost my job.
I was 29, never dated again.
I know at least a dozen meb Who can say the same..
Wow!
I love kids but my hubby and I will never create more miserable slaves. All we do is work. We're both educated and work an insane amount just to get by. We used to vacation every year but that's no longer in the budget either.
Too many cars and your house too expensive
@andre1987eph Nope. We drive older and paid off vehicles. We live in a very small house that was bulit in the 50's. We just live in commie Canada and can't immigrate to the states because we're white.
Men don't want to get married governments don't want to help families if you could fix those there might be enough babies I had two husbands both had low sperm counts I got pregnant 5 times. The thing that took exhausting effort was finding someone that wanted to be a husband d and fathers and the getting the resources to take care of the children.
If it were cheaper to have children and men were not allergic to marriage and parenthood we .at not have a problem.
I wanted to be a father , but like most men my age I have up on the idea. I haven't met a woman I would even Want to date in a decade.
Very interesting subject, Tom. We're about the same age and I too remember being told not to get anyone pregnant. I remember sitting at the dinner table and my dad threatening us not to. I realize he just didn't want us having children before our time but it stigmatized what it meant to have children and I therefore never did. Another factor was how I watched my parents struggle to pay the bills. While our family had what it needed, we certainly weren't flash but never took handouts from the government either. I always had handed down bikes and wore cheap tennis shoes, for example. It taught me to be very self-sufficient and to take care of what I had. I have a brother and sister and they only have one child each. When our country went to two income households in the 70s, supercharged by the high divorce rate, it was the beginning of the end. The advent of the birth control pill played into this as well. Then, technology killed any new baby boom we might have had in the 90s. I think a lot of people wish they could morph into the gadgets that consume their every waking moment and shrug off their humanity which explains the increasing hostility and lack of empathy toward each other.
When 'patriarchy'ruled, they had to drum that into boys and girls. Many went on to have multiple generations of children. If that was defining for you, as anti natal, perhaps it's not because of what was present in your life, but what was missing.
How did technology kill the baby boom in the 90's?
Pretty much
If it's any comfort, not all of us younger folks drank the Kool Aid. My husband and I had four children by the time we were 35. I think it helped that we were both raised in households where the mother stayed home to work as a caretaker, and the father worked full time.
It's not modern life exactly that is causing so many of us in Western nations to become more and more celibate, rather it's programming that is an attempt to rile up younger and middle-aged males to go to war, followed by those still alive after that war coming home to lots of "kitty cat" stuff. "Do the work (of war), get the reward" being the message.
Twenty years ago 60% of males in their 20s surveyed said they "made whoopie" at least once in the previous 12 months, and about 70% of same aged females said the same. Today, 60 to 70% of woman in their 20s say they are "making whoopie" at least once a year, but only about 20 to 30% of males in their 20s have even had one date in the previous year.
Clearly social programming is doing this.
Poor diet, high stress, low pay, high pollution, low sleep, and the endless self-reeducation to keep up with technological changes leaves little time for romance. At least among the poors.
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Couldn't have said it better.
Fertility is higher in lower income families. Women's education and career aspirations drives down family size (often to 0 because they wait too long).
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Hard to believe with so many children born in other cultures outside of Northern Hemisphere struggling to survive.
We need to solve these problems as men and women together as a global community... The single most important thing to create more Peace on Earth is fostering empathy. Understanding and sharing the feelings of others can lead to Compassion, Tolerance, and ultimately, a more Peaceful Coexistence ... Empathy forms the foundation for resolving these conflicts ... Empathy promotes more understanding for EVERYONE to work towards a more harmonious life in all global communities ... Peace on Earth 🌎 Not more war ✌️
This is the only way, everyone wants it to be through regulation or law but it can only be done truly through community
Nah, it's not plastics that is lowering the fertility rate, it's how starter homes now cost $500k in most of the country.
And the median salary is low in most places. Even at 4x my salary. I still will not be able to get a decent place to buy.
both
exactly
Modern media, film, television, internet, have made it possible for everyone to see what the best lives are like: the lives of the most beautiful people, the richest people, the luckiest people.
90% of people are collateral victims of life: unremarkable, unattractive, hopeless in terms of talents, success and finances.
It is not surprising if some percentage of that majority comes to the conclusion that they do not want to participate in life. They don't have the quality, strength or courage for success, they don't want to settle, so they choose not to participate: _"I don't want to be with a woman if I can't have a beautiful woman. I don't want to have children if I can't afford the best life for myself and them. I don't want to work hard if I know I won't achieve success worth the effort."_
I understand and support that.
What can you do except making the average life better?
That’s a good way to look at it though I’m seeing mostly women thinking this way not guys but am now seeing a large number of men and boys 16-35 wanting to not participate at all
@@Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387I would definitely say it goes both ways if not more so with men. Women are more picky for sure but it’s more so men with these hopeless “if I can’t have/do it why bother” thoughts. It’s not surprising the suicide rate with men is higher than women. Also see more women opting out of the dating game too just as men are. Almost all the women I know choose to be single/don’t pursue relationships now. So weird, when I was younger I couldn’t wait to find my special person, now at the age of 25 and seeing how the dating game currently works… I’m good too lol
The problem is we see and are sold a very curated version of what "the best" is.
I dated much of my 20s and 30s, wanted to settle down (but never wanted children). I was a very attractive younger woman, and had my pick of the litter. As I aged, I stayed fit, colored any grays, used sunscreen, no drinking, no smoking. Now in my 50s looking 35, and every man looks like Santa Claus, only fatter. I have been dating late-30s and that is not sustainable because I don't feel we have much in common. I'd like a man closer to my age that is still appealing. I made the effort for them. And I am stuck with nothing and feeling pretty bitter.
What is it with the richlister elite & this view on overpopulation ? ?
Modern life has allowed the population to triple in 70 years !
Even by reducing the population by 2/3 the earth would still be overpopulated !
The population is still increasing !
Infertility is what we need - Seems like our survival instinct kicking in ! : )
There is a direct correlation between the cost of a barrel of oil and population.
The second most abundant liquid besides water in the Earth is oil
Hence the weirdos with their climate change agenda, it’s all about depopulation. Ultra rich people want the planet to themselves.
Hemp-based plastics would avoid this whole problem. Damn Reefer Madness
How is hemp plastic
@@-whackd plastics just means malleable. We can have "natural" plastics. We see petrochemical ones because they're ridiculously cheap and highly available.
Yes hemp definitely needs to be utilized more. All packaging should be completely biodegradable, we absolutely have the technology to do it at this point.
Is wish it wasnt so expensive tho
Hemp seed oil replaces diesel gasoline. Proof is on you tube
Stress + poor diet + pollution + Pharmaceuticals and everything else are destroying all of us.
Doctors had me on 14!!! different medications for several years. They kept saying I was getting worse so they would add another pill or increase the dosage of the ones I was already taking.
Finally my son and I went on a sort of retreat together for 4 days and did a deep dive research into everything the doctors said I had and every medicine they had me taking.
When we returned, I had every test imaginable done and put all the meds/Rx’s in box. Didn’t tell the doctors anything and even continued to fill the Rx’s so they wouldn’t suspect anything 😮
Also, changed my diet completely with a plan my son came up with.
I started eating what he calls “single ingredient” foods.
Nothing from a box or bag, only the freshest stuff I can get.
Lots of protein, eggs cooked in real butter with real cheese, lamb, chicken, beef, venison, elk, antelope, fish (wild).
Absolutely zero soy!
Nothing with multiple ingredients I usually can’t pronounce and don’t know what they are.
No seed oils of any kind, no sugar, no alcohol except a little red wine.
Low carbs (no store bought bread) but not zero carbs.
I eat from 11am to 5pm every day.
3 months later I had all the tests done again.
Absolutely every test/level came back great all green.
I had lost 51 lbs, 8” off my waist, BMI went from 28% to 14.5%, no more diabetes, no more pain, normal blood pressure, all symptoms were gone all without exercise!
It’s been 4 years since then and my wife who is 24 years younger than me (I’m over 50) is very pleased and is in heaven 2 - 3 times a day 😮😂🎉🎉
I take zero meds, BMI is 12% and I’ve gained 20lbs of muscle.
Life is good 😊😊😊
Cheers
Great
Gross, I'd never have sex with a grandpa, eww
Totally awesome stuff till you mentioned making whoopie two to three times a day. Yeah, riiiiiight.
You don't list your BMI in percentages (%). Did you mean that your body fat is 12%?
Must be nice to afford eating that way. Jealous. Glad you're feeling better.
I wonder if we “ban” porn, if it would get people to get out there and mingle some more.
Thanks for your shows! Any chance of getting chapters in the future?
One quibble: it’s not that women who have kids are having less, they aren’t having less-it’s that the number of childless women has grown exponentially. This is in most part due to not finding a partner within the fertility window and/or delaying too long where artificial insemination treatments fail.
last part is spot one, in my country most women that have the first kid they do it at 32 based on stats? at 33 women fertility drops by 50% i think and also gettin older mentaly and physicaly does not help. So ye there was a reason why years ago people had kids in their 20s
Very true "unplanned childlessness."
@@Gabriel902884I agree, young women should delay university not having children.
Millions of women choose to vote themselves men's incomes through big government rather than marry and raise families. They then pay lip service to wanting a family once it's too late. You don't defer something you want for as long as possible.
Most don’t want kids. Why do you think the ‘child free’ movement is a thing? Women are not prioritising those things. That’s all it is 😂
we live uncertain, dangerous times where you can lose your job anytime.. why people would bring kids into such mess?
government and companies are way too greedy and yet they want us to have kids on the road.
I wont bring kids into world where they wont have good quality of life
Why is the world population still going up then?
I really liked that she mentioned that those aren't the only issues with sperm count and test. Like lifestyle and implied that we haven't done anything to control for those factors in these studies. Phalates are there, they have an effect and we know what it is. How much other factors contribute to that effect as a whole is not known.
Really glad the guest spoke out against the reductionism. "We are just chemical processing plants" is way too reductionist. We cant even explain consciousness, so I'm glad she pointed out that theres still much we can't explain with science. She's a true scientist.
Agreed
The evil in this world is anti-reductionism: BIGOTS WHO MAKE DUMBSHIT GENERALIZATIONS against entire political parties or other categories of people.
Me, too!
Agreed, and there were a few other occasions whereby she cautioned against making direct conclusions when the possible answers were open. She is a true scientist.
Tom, let her talk... quit interrupting her as she's trying to develop her points. And what she is talking about is absolutely critical and so exactly explains a lot of the modern social and cultural issues happening today. Like gender dysphoria particularly prominent in males, for example. And don't confuse her points, which are about the base biology of human reproduction, with birth rate declines caused by economic or macro cultural factors like cost of living. And obviously she's trying to talk by his bantering on about penis size etc. Its too late , you can't change what was planted a few days after conception.
Listening to old women is what has led us to this point.
she's RUDE as H*ll. She's not letting him TALK!
They kept interrupting each other so I f**ked it off at 2'33. But she seems an interesting author so I will seek her out elsewhere.
It's simple. If you can't afford kids please don't have them. The taxpayers are sick and tired of feeding kids that are not there's.
exact
0:09 No, we do not. We are in billions, people just adjust their numbers based on available resources. There are other animals that reduce their population during the times of hardship and then increase numbers once resources are available. while current rates on population decline are bad, we are not a specie with 100 k individuals, we are a specie with 8 bn individuals and a shitty resource redistribution. The main problem is that our society is built around population growth, so population decline breaks everything, but that has nothing to do with extinction. what we had was population boom, unnatural, because of introduction of modern medicine and quality of life improvements, population is just adjusting.
Never had one moment in my entire life where I thought having a kid was a good idea. World is burning. Why throw them on the fire?
to grow the pyre
More couples are waiting to have kids until they pay off their student loans, or at least get a handle on them. For a lot of them, they are in their mid to late 30's. Colleges are about 2/3 women these days which means they have 2/3 the debt. This makes the problem of being able to afford to have kids even worse.
I know of more than one woman who is saddled with heavy college debt, poor earning potential, and are feeling unable to start a family due to their debt load.
Free education and no student loans would be a huge benefit to the population of the US. There will NEED to be more beneficial social programs to support families and single parents in the US to maintain the current population.
@@DoubleOhSilver sure. Maybe they can cut back on things like food and hygiene 🙄
@Puddintame1242
Yea, I just love the rightwing talking points saying all this school debt is from people doing stupid things like not knowing how to budget or going to school for a useless degree. Nowhere do these rightwing propaganda outlets explain how this high debt was planned by the financial industry. This way they can keep you perpetually stuck in the "system" for decades and they can profit from the debt by packaging it up into securities like they did to mortgages and sell them off to investors as guaranteed income because almost nobody can file bankruptcy on these loans. God forbid any of that is mentioned.
Governments clawing at families for Tax, burdens couples and ends marriages breaks up families. Corruption in government discourages natural human relations which would result in children, couples reject bringing new life into a world where they are predated upon.
Seoul/South Korea is already decades ahead of the West on that path. The drain Seoul and its few mega corporations have on the entire country's economy is massive. The result is more people are forced to flock to Seoul for employment, jacking up housing prices, jacking up competitiveness, more stress, less children. A vicious cycle.
Millennials and GenZ have been socialized to have less kids. Look at the storylines and messages in TV and movies for the last 30 years.
One thing I don’t worry about is under-population.
Because you don't get it?
but govt's do.....in time, the gov't will fail.....too many old ppl not enough young ppl paying into the system....
@@stevegaines3590 We don't need more people paying into Social Security. We need the $160,000 income cap removed or raised so that those high income people pay enough to keep the system solvent. Takes just a stroke of the pen, but Republicans won't support this. They want to cut SS, which would ultimately result in far more homeless old people, but they don't care.
@@vsanden Because the world can not support 10.2 Billion people for very long.
Testosterone dropping because of the plastic bottles we're using. When I started reverse osmosis filtering water my bottled waters,after 3 weeks my bullocks enlarged. So I knew there is something in the water causing Testosterone levels to drop.
‘Epidemic that nobody sees coming’ is such a cruelly perfect unintended pun.
This conversation has been enormously disturbing…. BUT I’m extremely grateful for the eye opening information!
Very disturbing, even more so because I think most people would prefer the convenience of plastic over caring about the effects.
I am just glad the MeToo movement got the world they wanted
I mean does it matter that our reprudction is compromised when 85% of men are seen as worthless?
Bringing a child into this world has literally become a living hell. I can see why.
Was it ever easy? Ask your parents. They were probably scared too..
It is relevant to the times. Social norms, political view points shift, and even religious dogma can change. Every generation faces new problems and challenges. It also seems every new generation blames the preceding generations for the challenges it faces.
@@liopleurodon155 yes
@@alwayslearning8365 "every new generation blames the preceding generations..." Well yeah, of course we can. If we're taught when we're young and impressionable to be dreadfully fearful of getting pregnant, getting others pregnant, and having kids before establishing yourselves financially first... then why blame us if we live with that fear later in life?
The rampant inflation and screeching of babies in every neighborhood and all the beaches during the summer months is proof the world is grossly overpopulated. How dare the breeders create this inflation due to selfish breeding and they are not held accountable for the disaster they created. And on top of all that the overpopulation due to selfish breeders has caused the panet to become toxic.
I love how Shanna explains things.
There is an epidemic of self sterilization that is horrifying right now too.
Loving this channel and these long-form discussions. You are very respectful, you let people speak, you hear them out and listen to what they're actually saying, and you push back and ask important questions to further the discussion. Kudos to you my man, this type of content is sorely lacking nowadays.
Spot on re-food processing. I minimize processed food, as processing increases, contamination increases
Consider that many chemicals have a biological effect in the sub-mg level
I speculate items such as Binkies, Baby Bottles, Diapers, Toys, Tupperware, Fingerhut seat and Couch covers, Vinyl chairs and seats, Textiles, Plastic ware, fast food wrapper, Beveragecontainer, Household Cleaners, Medications, Aromatc Organic Compounds, etc...
Make life more affordable by paying the working class, then boom you’ll see more kids. Cuz we can’t afford kids .
equal pay equal work someone who does half the work.............same job.........
have actually seen both
So dumb
you can never afford kids you have them because you want them not that you can afford them. little buggers are like vampires but worth it.
You mean more single mothers. Feminism got into their heads.
I noticed a change in the dating market starting in the mid-to-late 2000s - if you went on a date with someone and it didn't work out, instead of it ending gracefully or without tension or hostility, you would often get insulted or humiliated. I don't remember that happening in the 90s.
😮 sad. We are gradually losing our manners and our kindness, empathy.
@@marygoff3332 It's partly cultural change but now that I think of it, it's also the type of dates I was on. In the 90s it was perfectly good women in their 20s and younger, same age as me, who later went on to long-term serious relationships. By the 00s, it was late 20s to early 40s women who, had they been more normal, wouldn't have even been dating but because they weren't, were by now becoming bitter and rabidly judgemental if you didn't tick all their boxes. Instead of sorting out their own problems internally, which in their late teens or early 20s just looked like "growing pains" on the way to becoming adults, they were now blaming you for their own failures and shortcomings. Most of the ones with their heads screwed on were already spoken for by this point, a decade or more into their adult lives. Just the leftovers remained. Men on the market at the same stage of life aren't as weird because they often have more juvenile interests until a decade or so into their adult lives - they take longer to be ripe for the picking.
haha! I've gone on 'dates' where I was (tragically) so glad and relieved it was over, and never looked back, just looked forward to getting a better 'date'
@@Fongolitus The problem was that my experience over about a decade was that if dating someone wasn't going anywhere, you would simply (without hostility or enmity) mutually go your seperate ways. At some point after that however, it morphed into a semi-regular pattern of being insulted and humililated when we didn't hit it off. The first 10 years of dating looked nothing like the next 5, so I wasn't at all prepared for it.
@@ReturnOfTheJ.D.Oh, I assure you, the leftover men are every bit as weird. A 33-year-old who's eagerly awaiting the new Star Wars product, still works an entry-level job, and can't cook is off-putting.
50 years, you are not going back far enough.
There is at least one paper out there from the 40s/50s that documents a huge drop in sperm count in returning servicemen based on whether or not they were sleeping on cotton mattresses or urethane foam pads that I remember reading a summary of.
Blue collar workers have little to no work security and white collars are rapidly joining them as increased automation, AI and globalisation has hit the jobs market. Prices for homes have been hiked up beyond the earning power of both members of a couple working full time, health insurance, pensions, education/care for children, and now food and energy have hit all time high prices. Buildings fall down quicker, education has been watered down, the food chain endlessly tampered with. Things that we took for granted as stable and worth investing in are rapidly changing and losing perceived value. It is incredibly difficult for people to feel optimistic enough to have children in a world where what will happen next week, never a certainty, now looks impossible to take for granted. Add to that the health factors delineated by Dr Swan, which are only SOME of the issues affecting fertility, and here we are with plummeting populations. This doesn't seem entirely bad to me as the world doesn't need or is able to feed as many people as it looked like there might have been and seems like a natural adjustment. Would certainly make sense to take plastics out of the equation at the rate they are used now, but, as ever, so much is dependent on food manufacturers who don't seem to have always had health on the top of their agenda.
In 1900, there were just over 1 billion people in the world, and look at how incredibly rich the culture was back then. Returning to that population level will create more space for everyone, including wildlife and nature. Today's cities are overcrowded and full of stress, there is a lack of open countryside, traffic and construction is almost everywhere.
Sure, maybe if the Idiocracy wasn't doing the majority of the reproduction.
There are so many towns that are barely hanging on. There are plenty of places to live but no jobs or employment nearby.
your facts are wrong
@@beachdweller3378 That doesn't contradict what I wrote. People are moving to cities, places are being abandoned, but that has a marginal effect on overpopulation and total built-up area.
@@martinhovorka69 Sounds like you need to move.
Men choose sex workers or even A.I. more often than actually finding a long term partner.
when will AI women bots be released.
Great. I want an AI boyfriend. Maybe he will be a good conversationalist with empathy.
@@nwatson2773 women literally have no empathy towards men.
the models can probably be used to train people as well. its hard to get experience as a man or women if no one will sacrifice their time
Because sex has been weaponized, especially with m2, family courts, etc. People could raise 1 child without much problems, but not when the majority are born into broken homes or it becomes broken soon afterward, which puts the majority of financial strain on men. It is nearly impossible to survive only on the average salary, especially in this new economy. So why would a man pay for an impending disaster and hassle by dating.
Finally! A CZcams channel worth watching
Children of Men (2006) was definitely the most realistic apocalypse scenario
Almost all food is packaged in plastic. First, you have the visible plastics. Then:
Metal cans- plastic lined.
Butcher paper - plastic lined
Glass jar - plastic or plastic lined lid
Fresh produce - bag it in plastic yourself
We decided as a society that poisoning the population is perfectly acceptable if it supports corporations and Wall Street profits through “forever chemicals”, pharmaceuticals, and other toxic chemicals, drugs and alcohol. We reap what we sow, money over everything else, and if the population is permanently damaged then so be it. We did it to ourselves.
Who precisely is we? Most cultures on earth have not agreed but have been coerced. So be specific.
Well, I didn't, my family didn't, and we have been against the endless predations of the speculative economy ever since the Great Depression and against the degradation of the environment since the 1970's.
It isn't just about profits, but power and control. The elites want to get rid of most of the population of Earth so they can have it for themselves.
The *rich* did it to *everyone else...*
A declining global population of sapiens is a huge good! Alan Weisman in his book "Countdown" argues that the planet can maintain a human population of two billion, if it is to remain ecologically healthy. Vastly diminished human numbers means les or no global warming, resource depletion, species extinction, loss of habitat and more.
No. It is not good news, dufus!
Within 150 years I could see the global population dropping to just two billion. AI and robotics will take over so much of the work, but what kind of a carbon footprint will they leave behind?
@@kylejamesdalzell2839at least they can chill on the beach in Alaska.
It always depens on your point of view. I think that life is more of a curse, and not a gift. What I exactly is the rason that I'm supposed to put this burden on the next generation?
Bless this woman and all her work, this is the only way to impact the use of these harmful chemicals and you can tell how much of her life she has invested
She can't change anything, don't be naive.
its not just chemicals, its our lifestyles in general.
You know how one measures, but one gets an image of of a Dr saying, excuse me madam, this may seem like a weird question but,,,
This has to be affecting cancer rates and general human health, not just reproductive health.
@@purpur7187 What are you expecting? She is a scientist, not someone with political nor economic power.
She is doing vitally important work and we need to listen. We as a society can fix this if we act on what she is talking about.
Seriously all of what is going in American society today is really just out of our control. Acceptance is the first step for living a content life.
No its rly not accepting which is the first step to a content life. We dont want to accept ourselves and to get out of our comfort zone we have to face ourselves and see ourselves accuritely which means our sense of self is going to have to go out the window and we will have to face an existential crisis. So why do that why accept yourself if you can live contend in a fantasy. Its not that we think this conciously its more like we think we want to get out because we dont like it, but we dont want to get out because we dont want to face the sunken cost fallacy of all the pride we have invested into our sense of self and everything that proves it otherwise is dissmissed which turns into cognitive dissonance.
These trends are global. They aren’t confined to a single country or continent.
This explains why we have this Trans generation in America. This level of sexual identity confusion is at an all time high. Only magnifying the infertility problem. It needs to be destroyed like a malignant cancer, or we’ll be extinct sooner than later.
No. Moving away is the first step.
Yup. It’s just a cycle that societies go through.
I don't understand why this is a bad thing.
I love Tom his questioning and "Devils Advocate " perspective simplifies things for me.
I'm from Utah which has always had the highest birth rate in the U. S. It's still the highest in the nation at 2.1 children per household, but since the 80's until the last decade or so, it was 3.1 children. Culture and economics has definitely played a major role.
Don't the docs in Utah prescribe sedatives to married woman to keep them from surfacing to the reality of that state?
That is a huge decline! Damn... But with the Mormon focus on education and career, it does make sense.