The population likely won't go to zero. I bet there will be some religion capable of convincing its followers to still have lots of children despite how horrible having children is, and they will...
The population likely won't go to zero. I bet there will be some religion capable of convincing its followers to still have lots of children despite how horrible having children is, and they will replace everyone else.
That's a very clickbaity title. There's no way the human population will drop to zero merely from a falling fertility rate. There are other ways we might go extinct, but that's not it. The writers...
That's a very clickbaity title. There's no way the human population will drop to zero merely from a falling fertility rate. There are other ways we might go extinct, but that's not it.
The writers are right to raise the point that women around the world are becoming more educated, and that there is a correlation between better-educated women and a lower fertility rate. But extending that to the outcome that we might simply run out of people is ridiculous. There will always be people making babies. There might be fewer humans, but not zero.
The population likely won't go to zero. I bet there will be some religion capable of convincing its followers to still have lots of children despite how horrible having children is, and they will replace everyone else.
That's a very clickbaity title. There's no way the human population will drop to zero merely from a falling fertility rate. There are other ways we might go extinct, but that's not it.
The writers are right to raise the point that women around the world are becoming more educated, and that there is a correlation between better-educated women and a lower fertility rate. But extending that to the outcome that we might simply run out of people is ridiculous. There will always be people making babies. There might be fewer humans, but not zero.