This article takes a scientific viewpoint in the idea that the world’s population will take a steep decline in a few decades. Scientist and spectators of overpopulation have looked at the world’s population as a whole for some time now. They have concluded that the population is currently at a slow growth but a fast decline. Why this may be happening? Women in the workforce, marriage, and reproduction stages, all seem to be the current issue. With women in the workforce they are quick to hold off reproduction and even marriage. According to the article, “In South Korea and Japan women delay childbirth until their 30s or forgo it altogether.” and this is a huge issue being that it drops world population and as the elderly begin to pass there are less and less young people to replace those spots. Reproduction on world average is around 23-30 and scientifically after the ages of 35 women have a little to no chance of reproduction. With birth rates being lower than death rates, this article believes that by the year of 2050 the world’s population will begin to decrease at a steady rate until there is no more.
Thinking in a scientific standpoint is always a scary reality. This of course won’t happen exactly, but technology and everything else are rapidly expanding. Someday in the near future there may be a formula to all the population madness and the world may continue forever. But analyzing current data leaves me to think that we may possibly be nearing the post industrial stages soon. There is a lot of questioning that goes into what has been said in this article, but some valid points were made. It is currently a trend for women to be very economically independent, leaving them to hold off marriage and children. It is also true that everything is vastly becoming better, so the world could possibly just be adapting to change. Maybe in the next decade there will be another forcast of what is to be of the world for the next 100 years.
Chakrabarti, M. (2019, February 21). The Road To 10 Billion: Where Is Global Population Actually Headed? Retrieved February 22, 2019, from https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/02/21/empty-planet-global-population-decline-growth-john-ibbitson-darrell-bricker
This is interesting! When now we have been concerned with increased population, now scientists stress over no population. Is this really realistic? Increased opportunity for women is a huge factor, but do you think this will dramatically transform the population?
I hear you on how we might possibly be nearing the post-industrial stages soon due to the example of low reproduction rate.
I never heard this perspective on the population so it is very interesting. However, it is slightly frightening that we will eventually be at a steady decrease. Is this because of lack of resources/space or purely out of lack of wanting to reproduce?