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===== China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/17/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low by Helen Davidson 01/17/24 The Guardian] | |||
China’s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates. | |||
===== China population decline accelerates as birthrate hits record low ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/17/china-population-decline-accelerates-as-birthrate-hits-record-low by Helen Davidson 01/17/24 The Guardian] | |||
China’s population decline has accelerated, with a second year of record-low birthrates. | |||
=====Climate Change-Overpopulation===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/24/2288020/-I-Myself-See-the-Hand-of-Climate-Change-In-All-of-This?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web by Hugh Jim Bissell 11/24/24 DailyKos] | |||
And just as the physical manifestations of climate change (more extreme storms; rising temperatures; loss of snow and ice; etc.) are occurring sooner than was initially predicted by climate scientists, it appears that the changeover from democracy to authoritarian government has also occurred here in the USA sooner than anyone predicted. I myself doubt that many Trump voters specifically want an end to democracy, but I do imagine that most of them want a stronger government that would take more forceful action to make the problem of immigration or homelessness go away. But even a King Trump cannot reverse the effects of continued population growth, anymore than King Canute can order the tide to go out. | |||
===== The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse ===== | |||
[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/ by Marc Novicoff 30/6/25 The Atlanyic] | |||
First, the bad news: Global fertility is falling fast. The aging populations of rich countries are relying on ever fewer workers to support their economy, dooming those younger generations to a future of higher taxes, higher debt, or later retirement—or all three. Birth rates in middle-income countries are also plummeting, putting their economic development at risk. Practically the only countries set to continue growing are desperately poor. | |||
===== Humans could face reproductive crisis as sperm count declines, study finds ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/15/humans-could-face-reproductive-crisis-as-sperm-count-declines-study-finds by Nicola Davis 15/11/22 The Guardian] | |||
A study published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, based on 153 estimates from men who were probably unaware of their fertility, suggests that the average sperm concentration fell from an estimated 101.2m per ml to 49.0m per ml between 1973 and 2018 – a drop of 51.6%. Total sperm counts fell by 62.3% during the same period. | |||
===== Falling sperm counts 'threaten human survival', expert warns ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/26/falling-sperm-counts-human-survival by Miranda Bryant 26/2/21 The Guardian] | |||
Falling sperm counts and changes to sexual development are “threatening human survival” and leading to a fertility crisis, a leading epidemiologist has warned. | |||
===== How community crofting experiment could help repopulate the Highlands ===== | ===== How community crofting experiment could help repopulate the Highlands ===== | ||
