Stephen Shaw discusses ‘harrowing’ figures that show world population is on the brink of crisis
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- Stephen Shaw joins Neil Oliver to discuss ‘harrowing’ figures that show the world's population is on the brink of crisis as people decide not to have children.
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How can people in the UK afford kids when both parents need to work to pay an unaffordable mortgage for the next 40 years
A significant reduced tax rate for married couples with children encourages family unity and will reduce the societal devastating consequence of family separation, will encourage more future tax payers raised in more healthy family units, will destroy welfare culture and reduce overall taxation and future pension funding issues.
The greedy socalist government will not think 1 step ahead.
Doing this reduces future prison populations.
Better education projections.
Less future addiction issues.
Will significantly reduce Male self deletion rates etc etc etc etc etc.
The more reduction as an incentive the better the outcome.
Its an easy solution that requires implementation now to stop the population collapse
Thanks feminism. Birth control wasn't mentioned here
Live and Loud woman have helped to drive wages down.
It really kicked off big time in the eighties, until then the majority were happy to stay at home or work part time.
Then the you can have it all and keeping up with the Jones’s kicked in, holidays abroad, with the newest car and a bigger house we’re sold as the dream. Women en mass stepped into the workforce leaving their kids for these new sparkly trinkets.
Peoples willingness to borrow and use credit wasn’t frowned upon as it once was then, boom 97 the housing market explode and prices double to make the bankers even richer, of course they’ve multiplied again so many times thanks to governments open door policies.
In modern times being a housewife is also demeaned as in little value. Both my sister’s in law would ask what I found to do all day, citing they would be bored sitting at home.
This was from two women who dumped their kids from early morning till 5:30-6:00 pm five days a week. My mother in law not only fed and looked after their children, she did their washing and ironing and both women had a cleaner.
I would not swap their sorry existence for anything. I got to enjoy, play and shape my children into well adjusted, kind human beings.
Both are in their late teens now, they both come and sit with me and have proper conversations about everything, sometimes the youngest just likes to rest their head on my shoulder and have a hug.
@@witlesswonderthe2nd883 Consumerist economies were a fifties focus after the war ended. Materialism rose in the eighties. Environmentalists shunned it but didn’t see the experience economy as equally ruinous to the material one. All those extra travel miles to do exciting activity after exiting activity, all to fill social media timelines, to impress on others your “materialistic” experience buying. Are younger generations poorer in real terms once you strip away their rent it lifestyles? Aspirational lifestyle promotion has decreased overall happiness whilst increasing childlessness. In the UK we’ve been building an unsustainable welfare state and public sector pension crisis. If AI results in increased profitability linked to decreased overall pay I can’t see how it’ll produce consumers without state interventions. As you wrote a hug and cuddle is worth far more than a hoodie and comforter. I speculate that we’ve seen a psychological impact from overt consumption with increased depression from poor parenting. The buy them happiness by earning more simply didn’t pay dividends. If city living becomes the new norm this misery of comparative consumption will increase exponentially. As Ghandi said, live simply so others may simply live. We’d certainly be much happier.
The reasons countries like Britain are having less children is sheer cost. There are no effective affordable childcare facilities and wages are too low while house prices are way too high. All engineered by politicians in the past 40 years.
All part of the late Greedy Bettys UK caliphate legacy plan.
Yeah that's right, who can afford the little rascals.
@@thelastgreatdevolutionary1044 Bah ! pesky kids !
If taxes were lower, people could afford for husband to work and mom to stay home.
*WEF
I’m 40 this year and have never been more convinced of my choice to not have children
Yep, major world war on the horizon
I wonder if you’ll feel the same when you’re 70? It comes round much quicker than you think it will.
@@Sooz007-l3b who knows. I’ll find out when I’m 70! I have a nice life. I enjoy being able to do whatever I like when I like. My partner feels exactly the same. We have lots of friends and family with children that we love. There’s just never been any desire for us to ever have our own children! And I now look at the world and I feel vindicated in my personal decision.
@@BurtSpacecat Fair enough. 👍
@@Sooz007-l3bI'm 70 & witnessing the trends of this world (like mandating vaccine, trace & tracking, censorship, government issued digital currency) I am VERY glad I didn't bring a soul into this inevitable Totalitarian Distopia controlled by cruel, heartless & genocidal elites
We have a economic system that is overtly anti family.
Yea man. That was always a UN goal
Destroy the family unit
It has almost been accomplished.
I do believe culture is controlled and that nothing happens from grass roots
EVERYTHING comes from the social big bang. Which is the birth of “rock n roll”
Everything that has caused societal ROT can be traced back to rock n roll.
Lots of literature on it that is fascinating.
Because human productivity isn’t valued…
Most professionals make money but feek all of value.
Q. "Where's my Prince Charming?"
A. "He's been working a minimum wage job at Burger King ever since he graduated ten tears ago in History of Art, and he's too ashamed of his earning power even to raise his eyes to a woman."
Yes, the price of childcare, housing, and low wages put children in the back seat 😒
Best comment on here!
It’s a real shame that the people we don’t want multiplying are the ones having the most children.
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And our governments are also importing the ones that have the most children whilst the ones that should be having more children are pushed aside for the ones that are imported and have the most children.
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@@Tony11806 Proving that elite ruling class are both ethnomasochists and suicidal.
Es verdad.
I’m a 31yo Australian woman and I’ve always wanted children and still do, but I married in my late 20s and my husband wanted to wait. Plus, pockets of society put women down for having children, especially before they’re 30. We’re told we have ‘plenty of time’ and the priority is always on earning money to buy a home and go travel. Abortion is readily available and people think they can’t afford children because they have to pay for so much stuff (baby monitors, the latest cot, more toys than a child could possibly play with…). I grew up in a family with six children, we had very little money, a humble home and no family holidays, but we grew up happy and knowing we are loved. I do think society, and governments particularly, devalue a simple family life and we put pressure on each other to keep up with modern fads.
Consumerism reigns supreme. Does every starter home have to be 3000 square feet now? Does one parent need to go to work just to earn enough money to afford childcare? Why not stay home and raise your own children in a far scaled down apartment or fixer-upper starter home? Don't eat out, plant a garden, learn to sow, use hand-me-downs. It's been done with great success by former generations- ask your grandparents how they survived the depression or recession of the past century. Where there's a will, there's a way- how much do you value your children - they are priceless gifts.!
Overpopulation is a huge problem
I was in Oz when I was 31 almost 30 years ago. What baffled me why there was so many young handsome blokes on Bondi beach cavorting with women old enough to be their mothers. It was the same up at Elourra beach in Cronulla. I think there was a severe shortage of women in Oz back then. No doubt you had a lot of suitors chasing you for sure.
@@ppo2424 😭😂😂😂
😁 The pram for my firstborn was bought from the op-shop. I took it home, scrubbed and disinfected it and it did a fine job. Nowadays it’s got to be the latest Formula One model costing megabucks. I was one of seven growing up in the war and post-war years. We lived on a council estate, like all our friends, and had everything we needed, if not everything we wanted. It was a very happy, free-range childhood. We learned how to be careful with money and only bought things we could pay for up front. How times have changed!
Who would want to bring children into this shitshow would be utter cruel.
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To KNOW how bad the world is and still bring kids into it is fcking perverse
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If we teach them right, it's the Children who will put things right. If we don't have any then we face extinction. But maybe that's what you want🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@iamrocketray therein lies the problem they will go to state school and learn wokery and a failed system of just remembering facts and figures and how to be a good worker bee, no true wisdom and learning, not to mention the cost of living and the prospect of mankind destroying itself. All in all they are going to suffer horribly in this world.
Maybe one factor could be that being a housewife and mother, before thinking about a career, has been frowned upon, and made financially very difficult, as being able to pay a mortgage and rent now takes two wages, and still leaves most people a pay check away from homelessness etc.
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Whilst I agree in part, surely it is about making family life and children a priority. Others are, and they are thriving. The same rules governing social benefits and taxation apply to all. Its about priorities and not buying into western propaganda, and the "oh woe is me/us" mentality. Others are thriving on the same financial resources.
@@user-oo7kg9ew8s "thriving" give your head a wobble! That's typical Tory waffle!
The role of stay at mother is seen as one for the not very bright, rather than funding childcare government should encourage it more. The other question is when will the imbalance between people studying for degrees and graduate level jobs be addressed to begin to bring us on to a more even keel? Making degree study compulsory for nurses and police officers is one example; how many great potential nurses and police are there who don't want to study? Degree if you want more senior promotion but every officer and nurse, is that really necessary? In the end it's all about money isn't it, what life costs, what people can't live without and the selfish notion that someone else will have the children who'll become workers of the future.
My physical geography teacher taught us about the risk of population decline even though it wasn’t in our exams but it was a subject he was passionate about. He explained it was part of the reason for him having 3 children.
I take my hat off to the liberal sex crusaders. I bet in this day and age when they become entitled teens and whilst living in a fake society he will be eyeing up the rope to swing from, I am so glad I never had kids I saw years ago the way society was going i.e in an anti family way and indoctrination of children, thanks but no thanks.
Good excuse to convince his missus to get the leg over at least two more times.
Ridiculous concept unless,say living on a farm situation,which is the real god-given 'ideal' where the more the merrier applies.Extra labour= greater food production = surpluses to trade with ? This teachers idealism model will invariably result in surplus factory,corporate fodder,estate agents,legal drones instead of essential food growers and related services attatched-butcher,baker.cand...etc.
About the same time as "housewife" became an undesirable occupation is when populations in western countries started to decline.
‘Housewife’ did not become an undesirable occupation - hungry and homeless were the options - so we went to work.
@@SuperSummer58 No, when household income went up with the dual income family, so did the desire for more goods and services which the manufacturing sector were happy to accommodate.
It was all a plot by Rockefeller & Co. they wanted wives, mothers to go out to work. As they then paid taxes. And the children were then cared for and educated by the state. They controlled education so could mould the children's minds. Also part of the plan to create women's lib and feminism. All part of the plan to break down the family unit.
Bingo.
All by design. To breakdown the family unit, make mothers unnecessary, so that the state can raise, control and mould the child's mind to suit their needs. Scorn was shown to any mother who wasn't 'a working' mother. What a joke! A mother's work is the most important as it produces the society of the next generation. Most housewife mothers work 24/7/364 days a year, a day off on their birthday perhaps. Or if they are sick.
I relate to grieving not having a family. Society is broken. Relationships, men, women, all of it. I’ve spent my life trying to be a good person, but it hasn’t helped me. Feels like the rules keep changing and it’s hard to keep caring.
" Good people, " get washed aside by the prevailing Windsor mafia and western zio capitalist machine on these subjugated shores I,m afraid.
Keep being a good person . It's what we have been put here to do in my opinion. It may seem It hasn't helped you but think of all the people your actions have helped.
This!! I also feel like thought trying to be a good person in the country their is very little reward or recognition - perhaps being selfish is the name of the game, despite other's comments and judgments it just feels like there is no way to win there is clearly something wrong in the system when so many people are being affected by this phenomena and are gravely unhappy as a result
@Natalia Regina keep your chin up and do what you know to be right. Good things aren't done for recognition , keep doing them.and rewards will come your way perhaps when you least expect.
Keep going, even despair cannot last.
It's essential we pay proper attention to this. Society devalues motherhood and constantly lies to young men and women, telling them that the single most important thing in their life will be their career. Wrong. For most of us, it's our family and people we surround ourselves with that is our ultimate source of meaning and satisfaction. Humanity has always known this.
Ain't that the truth!
It also devalues fatherhood, parenthood and the family unit in general.
100 agree!
Families aren’t always ‘happy’. There are no guarantees either way. Poverty and financial hardship don’t make for a happy life either.
I found one remark from Peter Zeihan very enlightening: "If you live in the countryside, a child is free labour - when you move to the city, a child is a [financial] burden"
Having g a child so it will Labour for free is a bit sht
@@lindseymca6422 That's a very 'modern' response - you can look a little bit beyond the binary interpretation.
If your city child helps around the house, does he contribute to the household income? What if he lives in the countryside and feeds the pigs?
@@diatonicdelirium1743 Exactly! I grew up in the country and we all had jobs to do that contributed to the whole - like crew on a ship. Then we ate together at the table having _earned_ an appetite. Then I was forced to live in the city where kids just ran wild looking for mischief and food was browsed in front of the dreaded television.
So so true !!
Zeihan is an establishment shill
When mortgages were worked out on 2 wages . That's when prices for homes went up and population rates went down....
Consider the root cause of two wages being required - the pay equality laws. You can’t create pay without creating better productivity. With no chance of increasing the product produced the pay pot had two equal wages resulting in a net loss to the breadwinner. It didn’t happen overnight but over time that’s been the outcome. Then you have credit ratings created by debt for consumerism, required to get a mortgage. The utopian economic model is that growth is never ending. Population decline means growth declines too as consumers become fewer. And unfunded welfare and pensions become unsustainable. The Ponzi economy.
@@brynleytalbot778 every scheme runs its course eventually, the question is whether it will be replaced with something new in time or not.
No one can afford to have families.
It's not 1960s where we can work a normal job and afford a house on one wage
As a child in the 1960s we were shown film after film in Social Studies and on the tube at home of 1000s of starving,emaciated children and the reason for this was tied to overpopulation,or so we were told. The guilt I felt for having a regular meal while millions starved was undeniable. Repetitive unending messages like this are the basis for brain washing. As a child the obvious answer to too many people would be to have no kids.
Cheers from Sunny Alberta!
The world has always produced 10% more food than it needs.
It's unfair structures and war that causes starvation.
@@berean1703 you forgot to add power hungry politicians and leaders
And the world population in 1960s were less than 4 billion, imagine...
@@oldshiny3012 Fair point! The power hungry, easily bribed politicians have a large part to place in unfair structures. I would also say people have no fear of God on judgement day! But maybe you think I've gone too far now?
Same here is Australia charity donation to starving kids every single ad break.
When I was born in the early sixties there were 3 billion people, now there are over 8 billion, there was starvation then, and now there is now obesity all over the world, odd that.
Excellent observation and twice as many children in the classrooms.
There's still people starving to death all the time.
@@davidz3879 There are. However the number of people starving as a percent has and is still going down.
One of the biggest drivers of poverty is inequality. It becomes a vicious cycle.
Yea but the point is the peoples born in the early 60s are still alive but they had less children than they're parents had, and the children of them had even less, and now we have a generation of people in they're early 40s with no children and whatever children we do have are sterilising themselves in the name of progress.
And the elephant in the room is yes the world population is growing but the Caucasian population is dwindling 11.6%.
That's 11.6% of the world population and 60% are past the age of reproduction. You've a layman's view on the situation.
You might be a self hater but I'm not, I'm proud of the massive contribution we have made to the world.
As a women in her early 30's I can say a lot of my friends are ignorant of the age at which fertility actually decreases. There also an issue with women being told they are too young to have a baby in their 20's as they should be focusing on their career, and almost shamed if they get pregnant in their 200' like they are a teenager.
Have your babies when you feel like it, not when the set commands it. you may want to wear shoulder pads and join the rat race but for a lot of women there is nothing at the top but a bucket and a mop and an illustrated book about bird! The younger the woman is the more energy and time she has for raising kids. Once upon a time an older chap and a younger lady was the default setting for family. My granny stated at 16, had 9 kids and died at 94 years old.
As a woman in my 30s, I am not ignorant of my fertility, I just don't want any kids, period. I see mothers in my local grocery store every day, and they all look dirty, tired and miserable. Motherhood looks very unappealing.
@@teoleno4019 What you see is not what is there! The joy of bringing a child into your life and seeing it grow from baby to infant then to adult is truly rewarding and the MOST responsible challenge you could ever have. Hard work but nothing else comes close!
I had my first child at 18 and we were always really poor. My sisters waited until they were in their early thirties and worked in professional jobs. They traveled ;and raised their kids in comfort.
@@chriswatson1698 And your point is?
'' When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.''-- Thomas Jefferson
WTF does that have to do with it?
cor mait ‘e ‘ad e slaive!
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
@@cleanthessamouilides4441 netflek
@@jimadam6706 You can have as many children as you want, no one is stopping you. Unless youy live in China.
The way the world is going, I'm kinda glad I haven't produced any children that will have to endure it.
I can accept that.bringing kids into this world........would be child cruelty. Average 18 Yr old now,needs 2-4 grand just to insure a car.
Totally agree.
@@mattlenton2012 "Average 18 Yr old now,needs 2-4 grand just to insure a car" - Ummm... My 18yr old boy was £1400 and the following year was less than half that?
children just don't have the joyous childhood that previous generations had. i was growing up in the wake of free-love and the hippy generation and that aura of everything 'sex' was the beginning of the end for childhood. i live in a terrace of seven 1980's 'starter' homes and there is just one family with school age children. four of the houses are single occupancy 'rocking on a bit'. yet they are building new houses on the by-pass for the housing. there will be deserted housing estates within 50 years and they know it - hence the immigration.
@@NFawc that's still a lot, and 50% of new drivers has an accident in the first 6 months of driving, then there is no half of that...
Harrowing? It's about time!
I know very very few people who had trouble falling pregnant back in the 70s and 80s .. then by the 90s I noticed more and more couples having trouble, paying for IVF treatments, miscarriage or very premature babies, but now this happening more and more often.
There are many ways to reduce population, fertility difficulties just being one . . .
At last.... someone else who notices the obvious!!
The amount of people who think all of this is normal astounds me
The real problem is modern women think its slavery to raise a family.
Vaccines from earlier years is my guess in the health undermining stakes ?
@@earlgrey691 😂😂😂
Have you got any statistics to back up that nonsense?
The cost of living has skyrocketed, in addition to the difficulty in raising children in today’s society with internet etc, and the family unit has dissolved because both parents have to work. Additionally, 20+ age people in a North America are extremely self-centred, and having children is very self-less endeavour. Young people today do not know how to communicate since internet is so heavily used in their society, anxiety and depression affects the proportion of that demographic as well. I think it is a very, very complex topic.
The young are being priced out by mass immigration which pushes land and property values exponentially making the rich even wealthier without them lifting a finger to earn it. You are being scammed by your own lousy government.
It's a very well designed phenomenon
Spot on. Fantastic post.
The irony, is that if we stuck to our immigration policies of 50 years ago. The population would have dropped naturally which would have lowered the price of housing, less urban sprawl and smaller communities. This would have encouraged more children and Western Countries would have achieved a population-economic balance.
I make enough to raise a family on a single income and I'm 29 with two failed marriages. I make $14k-20k/month in the oilfield as a Senior Well-Testing/Production Operator, regardless of the money our real problem is the unrealistic mindset and expectations of modern women.
I don't understand why it's a problem. I think it's wonderful.
Because who will pay for the care of the elderly when there three times as many old and infirm than young that can work. China will hit crisis point with this by 2040
How shocking that Cambridge Uni would cancel the showing of this documentary. So they would have us believe that the 'brightest' amongst us lack the ability to discuss and handle this very important subject. If that's the case, maybe they should leave Uni now and get their money back . That aside, I suspect that one of the major things that has changed is that it has become incredibly difficult and costly for young people to put a roof over their heads and create a home. It now requires 2 incomes to pay the rent / mortgage and and the cost of childcare is often as much as a mortgage payment.
No actually. Look at which countries and continents have the highest fertility rates. You will see that in Africa (poorest) they are having the most kids. There must be another answer.
@@gaozhi2007 Africa is not infected with feminism.
Sad how universities, once places of higher learning and exchange & discussion of ideas, now reject topics that stray from the official woke narrative,
'The only people who can afford to have children are the very rich and the very poor' ~ Peter Hitchens.
Probably an LGBT issue!
Bringing up three children...and now seeing 6 grandchildren grow...is BY FAR the most significant and positive thing in my life...How sad that so many will not experience this profound privilege...and joy.
Not all of us wish to spend our precious time on this planet merely to keep on pumping out units. It worked for you....great. It doesn't work for everybody.
@@bobjames6622 Can't justify your poor choices.
@@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus Your comment makes no sense. Please show your workings and elaborate upon your meaning.
@@bobjames6622 Great comment.
Never had kids, never had a car, never missed either, we don't all want the same things in life..
I'm very glad that some are at last beginning to talk about this.
Maybe it's something to do with people not liking the way society is heading. Also, in the west, men are too scared to even talk to women let alone ask them for date. Romance has been replaced by the want of power and material wealth. People are still in education until their 30s and then they want to build their career instead of wanting to settle down and raise a family. Humanity has dammed itself through selfishness, greed and the loss of common sense and reality.
When you get to the point where people can't describe what a woman is you're doomed.
NOT humanity. the white west!
I was in a shop this morning and I wandered back from getting a new bike pump through the women's clothes section and a little old couple were going here and there, I thought they were looking for a present for a grand daughter. I heard the lady say she wasn't sure about something and the old man said "follow me" He turned and tottered off and she followed him, keeping the peace. That's the difference. Older men went ahead and their wives followed them, keeping the peace. Men are fixers and women go along and applaud them for being marvellous and know they can't do without us. Only now we have less choices. We have to work rather than choose to, for money, so we can't keep the family going. There have always been women who worked but it used to be a choice unless the family was very poor. Now the very idea of family is wrecked. No fault divorce is one of the worst things that has happened and lack of choice. It's all top down.
@@kellysouter4381 yes, it certainly was. It became way too easy for men to just opt out, and until recently there was no one making them pay for or care for the kids they left behind. Mothers were left to fend for themselves and their children, while husband/father went off and found himself a new wife, and kids were then having to cope with a stepmother and step siblings, which inevitably failed on most levels. Again, not all, but more that there were successes, I’m sure!
The nuclear family has been all but destroyed, even extended family are not engaging enough, hence the need for child care centres popping up everywhere; a job that once would have been taken by the grandmothers but now they’re out working too, or not willing to help.
It’s very sad.
@@lyntalbot394 "Until recently there was no one making them pay" actually fathers were made to pay a third of the joint household income since 1880
@@kellysouter4381 I totally agree that both parents have to work just to survive these days.
I'm the youngest of 6 kids, born in 1962. My dad had to work permanent nights because the money was better and he lost his left foot during WW2.
We used to have this thing called overtime pay, unsociable hours and weekend pay.
Now we just get a flat rate no matter when we work.
I remember weekends. Time was spent doing family things. That's all gone now.
This work ethic started in the US and ended up here in the UK.
Someone once said that every time a toilet is flushed in the US the contents float across to us.
I'm glad my kids have grown up and got a life of their own, and I'm glad that I won't be around much longer to witness the collapse of society.
Oh, and men can't give birth.
Very real problem. The elephant in the room is social media pressure and wokeness
The world population in over 8 billion, having increased from 7 billion in 11 years.
How does social media and wholeness cause population growth ?
@@SK-ei4cm He said "wokeness".
SK88.
The lie peddled about manmade climate change.
@@SK-ei4cm Well them who we call woke have a bizarre ideas on reality,
Let's all sit around a camp fire..
it's engraved into them from education nowadays, becoming little foot solders for activists, open borders, which will of course create a mass growth in population, so their idea on helping the world basically isn't helping us.
I almost drifted into childlessness but after 10 years of marriage, at the age of 32 I had my first child, my second was born 4 years later. It is seriously the best thing I ever did. Don't be afraid, children might just be the making of you.
There is no substitute for having kids. They make your life complete.
Society has forgotten children are priceless.
Or the death of you.
@paolo benmore lol true though
That's what parents all say. It's not like you can give those kids back or anything, so ofcourse you will spew the c*ap about them "being the best thing that ever happened to you".
As an old person I would add two reasons the first is the cost of buying or renting a house/flat unless you have a really high paid job it takes to wages to afford a decent home the second reason is with all of the tech stuff and the woke culture and the way that the world is going I do not think that I would want to bring a child into this world I am just pleased that I am old and will be gone before it gets to bad.
weaton: and if oldies feel that way, how hopeless do the young see their future ... 🤔
Trouble is there will be no new body for you to pick up for your reincarnation
@@fredneedle123 Plenty of other Planets out there!
@@iamrocketray True but why abandoned this one?
@weaton25 Wow you must be really old, as full stops and commas had clearly not been invented when you were growing up!
Why not have a 30 something on the sofa to explain why we're not having kids? Nobody hit the nail on the head. House prices and the cost of living generally are too high. Both myself and my partner are expected to work full time jobs whilst raising a family. Prior generations tended to have one full time job in a couple, with the other working part time or not at all. The present and the future looks bleak for my generation, so it would be irresponsible to subject that on a child who would have to live that life. I would love to have kids, but will only do so when I can provide the level of care my parents provided for me.
It must be more complicated than that, our populations continued to grow when the majority lived in objective poverty if you think back more than 100 years. It has to be a combination of multiple factors we haven't seen throughout our history. Yes expectations for our lives have changed but to lose the fundamental drive to reproduce is unprecedented
Yes correct but have imported the worst type of man from Africa and vile Arabs who are animals towards girls used and abused and end up pregnant every year this girls are worn out look at state of African women worn out looking and given up
@@tomtimtomtimRecent generations of women were encouraged to get a career and thus put off having kids to a greater or lesser extent. Governments stopped promoting the healthy family unit because of equality and gay pressure. Hapless sub saharans and muslims don't follow that doctrine so they just breed and live three families to a unit.
@@tomtimtomtim probably because people didn't have sex before marriage and contraception wasn't really available.
Go back 100, 200, 1000 years, women worked then too. So, nope. More about women needing to grow up.
WEF. Education, conditioning, lack of family values.
Annoyingly the specificity is being left out. Certain countries/cultures are having plentiful children. Others are having next to non.
That's the real elephant in the room. The poorest in the world are having the most children, while the producers are having very few. I see very bad things coming and hope I'm dead by the time it becomes catastrophic.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 Coupled with the increased social media 'influencers', gamers and streamers...less and less being produced.
VERY TRUE. The Elites are not worried about this or white people would be given incentives to have children. Sadly they see the replacements as easier to control
The wrong people are having children, is what i would suggest
Especially in Britain.
Dead right. THAT is the problem.
Yes. The specifics are not being talked about. The overall problem certainly is. That is why it'll never correct.
Absolutely right
No... the "right people" are only having one of two children... so barely replacing themselves...
Readily available contraception and terminations of millions may have something to do with this?
Some years ago I had a discussion with a doctor running a fertility clinic. She believed that women "forgot" to have children and by the time they planned to start a family, it was too late.
I can see that! the pressures of modern society fall heavily on the young.
Bottom line is: It’s too expensive and economically not viable for responsibly inclined people to have kids. They don’t want to end up in a line at a food bank not being able to provide for their kids, or both parties working full time and still struggling to make ends meet and not having time to raise their kids properly.
The truth for most people now. Unfortunately the ones doing most of the breeding are the psychopaths who designed this system for their own benefit.
We have two kids and struggle but it’s the best decision I ever made and I never wanted kids.
Part of their plan to make everything unviable
Why is it "harrowing" to have less environmental destruction? The less humans the better
Chidren of men is a great film to watch. Thank you Neil for your insight.
more like rich men propaganda worried about their wealth and business future
Ahh man. I bore people with this all the time 😂
Long story short. I WROTE this movie concept so CLOSELY to the actual movie whilst in bed with an ex gf many years ago. Like 2001 it was
. I nicknamed it GEN X
then a few years later we saw the trailer for it at the cinema and we both looked at each other and laughed!! 😂
I swear the whole story is frighteningly close to my concept. No BS! 😂
Great film tho. Especially that one take scene at the end which too is crazy coz I have always been a big fan of one take scenes as well and would deffo put it in my movie 😂
The book is always better than the movie.
The movie had the obligatory race swap.
How did that movie end? Only seen bits of it!
Very good and disturbing movie 👍🏾💯🤔🙄😳
In Australia we are building houses on school playing fields to house migrants. Imagine what this is doing for social cohesion.
Your own fault for not voting for an Australian republic, when the Windsor mafia had its guard down.
👍👍
Tremendous respect for Mr Oliver.
what for? ChatGPT can speak like that too ...
Gates said "if we make a good job of the vaccines....."
In what context was that statement made?
Studies shows pollution had caused a low sperm count in men
@@martynblackburn9632 I am pretty sure the next line was " we can reduce the world population by 20%, " which was met by laughter from his audience..
I think those of us who are awake know exactly what that meant!
Then he said the next pandemic will make them sit up and take notice, followed by his stupid giggle.
All I can say is that they are all headed for the UK.
The University of Cambridge - my once beloved (I am ancient) but increasingly loathsome _alma mater_ - cancelled it?!?!
Ffs, these people are completely insane.
Anyone with empathy wouldn’t subject their child to slavery…!
Empathy for who? This lie down and die attitude dressed up as moral superiority, has been written and parroted for much too long.
So
Non-existence is better than the chance to overcome this tyranny???
That's seriously your position.
Yikes.
I agree with you. I've grown up with a Christian faith and have a strong belief in the slavery of man towards the end. Now I'm aware many people don't believe this, that's their right. I find it amazing that the massive decline of morals (whether natural or religious) in the world is part of why population has declined so rapidly.
The crusaders had more impact than Jesus Christ historically…
I didn’t say don’t have children… I’m saying take responsibility
I knew as a 20 yr old that I didn’t want to bring a child into this disaster of a world
Join the club.
But the flip side is without new life, there is no hope for a better world
Is it really?
@@annieweston3317history tells us otherwise 🤣. Humans are stupid and can't seem to help but make the same mistakes over and over.
@@annieweston3317 More animals, less people is much more appealing.
it's true, i have grieved and mourned the loss of the children i never had
I mourn real children.
If you miss the pagh not taken there are plenty of ways to help the children who do not have stable families.
@@ssllylawrence618Absolutely. If I had had a strong man by my side I'd bé happy to foster/adopt.
Oh do grow up! No wonder England is all but effed with such silly, childish, spineless pillocks wandering about the place, head in the clouds, blubbing away and nicking all the oxygen.
It's a grief that people that don't relate will never understand. I've spent my whole career working and supporting vulnerable young people. It doesn't fill the void, and as rewarding as it, is a daily reminder of what you don't have. Sslly Lawrence's comment is made in complete ignorance. I'm sorry you had to read that.
@@TashaCreatesStuff You can't have a human being. You can only try to make someone visit you in a care home when old. A lot of people fear being old and having nobody then. Hence a child. It is a selfish act.
The world is so stupid and bad now - globally - with very little to make anyone’s life even close to bearable in a lot of ways, I can see a real factor in this being a feeling that nothing is getting better anytime soon so ‘do I really want to bring kids into this madness’….
If good parents don't bring good children into this world, it only gets worse. Unimaginably worse. Too late...
New, sensible people are the only way to fix this!
I didn't and certainly wouldn't now.
The voice of reason comment.
When governments collude to commit genocide then it's over.....imagine finding out your parents are poisoning you.
Simplest explanation: narcissism. People are full of themselves and don't care about anything but their own pleasures and personal freedom.
This falling world population seems desperate to all get into the UK.
I know right and all the other western countries amazing how that happens
And as they come the society collapses to something that reminds more of the places they left. 🤢
All part of the late Greedy Bettys UK caliphate legacy plan, now being rammed through with her spineless heir son and King with unmeasured zeal and glee.
@@ReasonAboveEverything
Import the third world.
Become the third world.
You have seen nothing yet. What is 1 million compared to 8 billion? Not even a drop in the ocean.
The crisis is in Britain's schools which are becoming overwhelmed by foreign pupils filling places at British taxpayer's expense.
our present government is killing UK
Someone has to work for pensions of boomers. Without immigration there is no pensions for anybody apart for the 1%.
Woman: "Now that I am divorced, I don't understand why men my age don't want relationships leading to marriage?" Man: "How did your divorce turn out?" Woman: "I got custody of my kids, the house, alimony, child support, and half of everything, including his retirement." Men are not afraid of women, rather they are afraid of divorce and the cash-grab settlement system. (Ask me how I know.)
They may have been the case 30 + years ago but certainly not since the early 2000's. It was all part of the plot to break down family unit and divide men/husbands and women/wives.
👏 👏 correct
All men say that, but they don't all lose...don't let your cock do the talking coz it's brainless but not painless
Bang on the money!
Visit a brothel twice a month and save yourself a lot of hassle and a lot of heartache.... And a lot of money.
Britains population is going up by a million every year. Our rivers are dirty and our countryside and wildlife disappearing. I cant see population collapse..
It is that population increase that pushes up the cost of housing and everything else, thereby discouraging baby making.
I know right in welfare countries like UK Canada and Australia who pay out tax free benefits to have kids l don't believe what they are saying either
You get all the wrong people. Britain is turning into third world dump.
Especially when the average Urdu or Punjabi speaker is knocking out a new kid each year.
Look how many children you see. We all know the UK is full of old and older baby boomers.
My partner and me emigrated to Australia 12 years or so ago. And for financial and for our own personal life goals we only have one child. It's hard theses days. We never see each other. She works the hours I'm not. Just to keep up financially. It's the world they are building. Everything for the elite. Nothing for the masses
In the Western world its hard to raise a family.
@@nebhalabir1201 it's expensive, which makes it hard
It is us who are building this world for them for the cost of our own children.
@@nebhalabir1201 ALL part of the late Greedy Bettys and her Zio enablers UK caliphate legacy plan.
I grew up in a traditional household where my mum stayed at home to look after us and dad went to work. But what I saw was my dad going to work, playing golf and sitting reading the paper, whilst my mum never seemed to do anything other than cook, clean, shop and iron. I didn't want the life my mum had, so I focused on a career, like my dad and have had a blast, I've travelled the world, done all the things I wanted to do and I'm now financially free in my 50s. I don't miss having had kids, but I never imagined getting old without having had them. Yet here I am...
we couldnt all do that though, imagine the world in a century's time
I had children young. Babies and small children are 24/7. I was envious of my husband's freedom. Two days out of 7, he was as free as a bird.
He did things around the house too, but always at his own convenience. Yet he was constantly complaining about "having to go to work".
He got to leave work. I didn't.
We have two intelligent daughters who aren't going to have children.
in the western world it helps if you have a place to live before you start a family and the money to support it. That's almost impossible for generations coming through nowadays unless you are very wealthy
Or very poor and a single teenage pregnancy/ migrant male
@@dogmadogma5398 Helps if you speak Urdu or Punjabi and are draped from head to toe in black cloth too.
There was zero help when I was almost homeless. I can't imagine leaving a kid in a place with no help.
As we are now importing net up to one million people (per year now) and the population has increased by millions, particularly since 2010 in the UK - here we are over populated.
What makes you think it’s over populated? Have you even been on a train from London to Scotland. Swathes of open land everywhere. Not a chance England is over populated
All part of the late Greedy Bettys UK caliphate legacy plan.
@@Peter-ix1ym you obviously live in a low population area
@@whitehorses460 my point is the land mass is huge, we should be building new areas for people to settle
expect droughts as a norm as they are building houses - causing water run off - willy-nilly but no new water storage facilities. with increased run off the water table in the land is lowering and aquifers are failing. more people, more concrete, more global warming, more restrictions such as 20 minute communities and all these other shit initiatives just to keep the concrete mixers turning. england is the most nature depleted country in europe.
He mentioned the birth rates declining in '74 it's important to note that was a few years after Nixon pulled us off the gold standard, and how much that affected currencies around the world. This was the start of massive inflation on a worldwide scale. Which priced a lot of people out of having families. This will only get worse.
The reason were not talking about it. As with supply chains, the attack on farmers, eco terrorism, food plants blowing up or catching ablaze, moral degradation, and large-scale migration coupled with the disarming of citizens. Its all the same plan. Part of WEF/UN
The most scary thing is that Cambridge Uni cancelled the showing of his video. This is really scary
yuuup - agreed - all hail the soon to be Gov. issued Brain Chips and bio Scanners so you/we are not breaching our personal quota of fresh air and fossil fuels or leaving our zones or being too lazy or having free thought or independent emotion or any form of autonomy...
Shame on Cambridge University.
In a nutshell; it's the breakdown of the family. Therefore, a very high proportion of women end up holding the baby alone - literally. I know that this was the main factor that influenced me as a boomer. My parents stayed together and so did everyone of their generation. Not so with mine and I realized this way back in high school so having kids was definitely not for me.
Of course on the flip side of that, there are plenty of people who don't work and don't pay taxes, who have no problem repopulating their communities. I know; I've been taxed quite heavily all my life to support them. No one is going to talk about that though are they?
And guess what: the break-up of the family is one of the core concepts of communism and fascism, to ensure the 'state' is the family surrogate. Back to basics.
well lets hope that all these children you are paying for will be working to pay your pension etc when you are older.
Exactly, the world is being re-populated with either rich- kid brats or dimwits like something from the film "Idiocracy".
30 years from now God help humanity.
Very good point, tax the workers, coset and give to the reproducers, mostly lazy bastards, it's ars about face,
@@whitehorses460 Working? HAHAHA
There is a groups of people in power who have discussions that people are destroying this planet
As soon as AI and robotica is up and running 'they' wil no longer need 'us'
The skynet
Exactly. The people farmers are looking to thin the herd.
@@staceya5149 how many aren't domesticated post humans? After they get us low enough, they can almost just step back and let the remainder collapse.
AI will not need us. There can be no human ruling AI ...
The population will be absolutely fine.
Of course it will amd guess what none of us will be here in 100 yrs to confirm whether they are right or not anyway
This is news to you? We've been decimating wildlife for 500 years from incessant habitat destruction from rising populations and you just figured this out?
Why would you want to start a family when you know your child will potentially become autocratic government automatons carrying out their will until you become too old to be of any use to them and they terminate you against your will. Like what is already happening in some countries.
You sound very paranoid
@@run2cat4run Not paranoid - defeatist. We need to make more children and raise them to fight back.
@@lexiburrows8127 I did not say "Don't have children" I said " Why would you want to."
@@run2cat4run You sound like a total clown
@@momonotever8847 Same thing in effect.
I wanted children. I was accused of having no ambition because all I wanted to be was a wife and mother. I was born in 1960 and when I got to my early 20's the "thing" was about living together not marriage. My friends git deliberately pregnant to get their boyfriends to marry them but I in all conscience thought that wrong. So I ended up childless and single at 30 and as a professional nurse classed a career girl. I took it upon myself to have a child on my own and had the son I so desperately wanted but I ache I only had one and am still alone. I remember a time when one wage was enough for a family to live on comfortably. Now 2 wages is needed and women have to work which is incompatible with motherhood. Women are waiting to have children in their 30's now and that means less childbearing years. Women can't retire until 66 now so no longer get the joy of looking after the grandchildren which means playschool and other people looking after children which is costly. Also we can now control the number of children born because of contraception. The care homes will keep filling and school yard empty until we support mothers and allow women to retire early to care for the elderly
Women used to retire at sixty, but it's going to be seventy soon. The work women do in the home is very looked down upon now, but it's necessary work if the family is to be well cared for. And it all takes time.
This is the most underrated comment here! Truth and Sensible - what a situation mind you
Women’s Lib ! So called “ empowering women.”
I also wanted to have a family. Thankfully, I was able to do so for a while. It was the best thing I ever did and I would do it again. People who care about this need to be the ones encouraging men and women to have families, if that is their goal. Help them.
"allow women to care for the elderly" !?! Why must it be women who carry that burden?
*'Idiocracy', the film, is becoming reality!* We are doomed☹
Life is so stressful, work stressful, and we are expected to be such perfect parents and not encouraged to not worry about things. Its mainly in our heads but if people are too afraid to be go getters in getting a relationship and a family instead of feeling demoralised and hiding under the bed covers, what hope do we have? Things were simpler years ago
Because human productivity isn’t valued…
Most professionals make money but feek all of value.
Years ago people didn’t have all the amenities we have now. They didn’t have food delivered to the door. If you wanted a simple bath you had to boil several kettles for a long time to even get a warm bath. No washing machines, dishwashers etc. life is much easier now.
What ever has happened to Universities? They have become the worse for cancelling anything which they think may offend. This should be t
main place where all views should be openly discussed without fear of persecution
They don’t believe in giving opposing views a platform. It’s an effective strategy, they seem to have had a great deal of success with it
@@JH-kd6hs yes and surely that’s what Universities are meant to be about listening and sensibly debating ( without the banshee ravings ) other persons point of view even when you are polar opposites
@@robedwards5709 100%. But that was when Universities were centres for learning rather than indoctrination. They're just another battlefield that the left dominates
Who would want to bring kids into this crazy world. Ive done my part. No kids and I am proud of it.
For years, we have encouraged the influx of migrants into the country to grow the country, rather than incentivising natives to have family.
That's another point people don't concider. I moved away from home with the intention of moving back but now it's overrun with immigrants of it's own and even my rural town has become a violent place. I have children of my own but it has been very hard without my own family unit nearby to help. My younger sister is struggling taking care of our elderly mother as well as her own family and we're all scattered to the 4 corners of the world.
@@lorrygeewhizzbang9521 thank the juice for all we are living.
@@mushihimesarna728 Sorry I don't understand your sentence.
@@lorrygeewhizzbang9521 the khazarian mafia and the babylonian money-magick system. The feudal lords installing voting to divide and conquer. Search for sacrifices and degeneracy in Carthage and the Weimar Republic. Every major war was against countries wanting to get out of the international finance system. England were the bad guys.
@@lorrygeewhizzbang9521 if you can't read my previous reply, just watch Europa The Last Battle.
Give thanks to the protesting Cambridge students who have inadvertently done us a service by bringing this documentary to wide attention.
On the brink of what kind of crisis? A crisis for the economy? In 1960 there were just over 3 billion people on the planet and nobody was in a crisis about it.
One of the reasons may be that people do not need to rely on their descendants to support them when they are old, they believe (wrongly!) that they can rely on the social security and welfare, so they are not urged nor think to have children when they are in their twenties
People don't usually financially support their parents. It's the other way round.
@David Z3 no when parents retire and reach around 70 plus years it often is the children who help supporth the parents especially if they develop conditions like dementia, loss of mobility etc
Bingo. Saying this for years. The family used to be people's social security, but this was taken over by the government.
This with birth control are the two reasons family and population are collapsing...and an honorable me tion can be given to the unfairness of family courts to men.
However, you must be blind not to see the cracks in the foundation of big government.
I have a Mother that is 92, bed ridden and needs constant care. There is a 2 year wait list to get into a nursing home and people are simply leaving the elderly in hospitals and walking away.
In the past, you would have 3 or 4 children living in the same area that would share the burden. Now? If there a couple of Children, they are probably thousands of miles away.
Maybe at some stage, we will develop robots to look after the elderly. It sounds dystopian, but it couldn’t be much worse than some of the so called “carers”, often immigrants, who you can appreciate why they’re here, but don’t really care.
The current workers pay for the pensions of those currently retired. If those workers don't have kids - who will pay their pensions & other welfare (eg NHS) funding? They need to make this fact abundantly clear to young people - & the answer that they will give that they intend to earn enough to not need pensions is ridiculous - most can't expect to be able to do that.
As my father always used to say, ‘The rich get richer, the poor get babies’. I can’t see that has changed much.🙄
@Curlew You're right
who wins in the end? The ones who have babies ... not the rich. The only way to live longer is to have children. Money will not give you that.
How can anyone afford a home even less a child?
There has been a serious down curve in fertility over the last 2 years and more so in countries that trust their government and media, just can't think what's causing it.
Global warming
It's impossible to have dramatic drop in fertility with over 8 billion people on the planet.
Carey Jones ... I would take a jab at guessing the cause, but I don't do jabs.
@@martinwebb1681 😂
@@JH-kd6hs More like the juice that a large amount of the population allowed the government to stick in their arms. A government that looks to the WEF for guidance, and the WEF being full of Eugenicists.
It makes perfect sense and it is a reality. Financial services are feeling the pinch. With an ever growing older population they can't keep their finances healthy because there is a decline in the younger working investors. I saw this decline happening some 15 years ago. It's one reason governments all around the world are raising the age of retirement and this is an indication that they do know.
There is also an issue with some cultures that marry cousins. Quite often their offspring are unviable pro-creators.
The elephant in the room is AI which will cut huge numbers of Jobs the countries that will be successful will be the ones with small highly educated populations and they are not the UK or the USA.
So, the first geniuses who studied and worried about 'population', figured that there were too many births. The so called 'population explosion' had to be stopped. So people listened to that propaganda, (esp. in China ...research THAT one. China's one child policy...horrific). Now here we are, and who will be the next victims? The elderly, because they are 'unaffordable, useless eaters'....right? I think the problem is the blatant disrespect for human life as a whole, at all stages. There has always been one being, who has always wanted the destruction/enslavement of humanity. There is nothing he loves more, than seeing us destroy ourselves, and he is very willing and able to help.
@@Lee.Willcox See Rochdale,Telford etc ?
How about we reign in spending..... and dont just give our children's birth right away to others....
I've been on about this for 23 years. I mentioned it to the congregation in N Ireland (where I was for 6 months). They did not react well.... Then, I met my Dutch wife in 2002. She is from the Bible Belt. Families of 10+ are not uncommon. Thank you, I'll get back to speaking about this...
Definitely from my generation...year 2000..women graduating college wanted to travel and then get a good career before having a family. Many of these women were well into their 30's and only had 1 or 2 children because houses and apartments have also become smaller. People can't afford 4/5 bedroom homes.
Now only banks can afford them ...
Population increase is what makes housing more expensive. The area of land within a reasonable commute of a CBD is fixed, so increasing the number of people wanting housing makes every square metre of that land more valuable and more expensive.
In developed countries, population increase is migrants and the children that they have after arrival, who are not classified as migrants.
@@chriswatson1698 one small bit about what you're saying is you seem to have assumed jobs stay in the same developed place for some long time, which is not always true for many places. Secondly, I'd add regional population increases, not just increases ...
@@swojnowski453 Regional populations are decreasing even though our govts have been trying for many years to get people to live away from the cities eg sending refugees to country towns. They soon drift back to the city.
After growing up under the dismal Grey reign of Thatcher and seeing all of that poverty and feelings of despair i knew at that very early age i did not want to bring any Kids into that World. Today poverty is even worse and the World is only getting more unstable by the Month, there is not one Day that goes by when i regret the decision i made Decades ago.
While rich have no guilt of their lifestyle the poor are suppose to be conscious about how they live
See the glory of the royal scam ...
Because nobody can afford to have children has to be a big factor in this
So a population collapse the sooner the better nature will breathe a sigh of relief
Having children is the fastest way to poverty. Doesnt mean we shouldnt have them but society doesnt make it easy.
Especislly when goverments would rather import workers than nurture children
I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world now , it would be horrible.
Everything now makes it too difficult and expensive to have children for a lot of people. Not to mention feminism and climate alarmists.
The problems in the UK are low average incomes and completely inadequate and expensive child care.
We will bloody well do it. I agree 100%
We've known this for years. I was thought this in school in the 90's.
One generation is not enough for the effects to be see. Too many people live too long.
I had 4 children. Not sure I would now in todays society.
I had 3 children, they are in their 40/50's now and I have 3 grandchildren! go figure💖💖
In the west men see how Fathers are Treated , and say JACK THAT !
So important ❗️
Deagle!
This topic has been on my radar for a couple of years now, since 2015 in fact, when the UN released the statistics on world population estimation in 2050. I also think governments have seen this thing coming for a while and it is my personal belief that Europe or the USA opening their borders is not simply out of "mercy for the poor", it is ultimately cold economic thinking.
People just can't afford another mouth to feed or rent. People have a limit for the amount of stress they can take, and a child can be extra stress until they are able to leave home and even then it goes on
People talk about the stress of having kids but they don’t mention the de-stressing ability of just being around them while they’re doing kid stuff.
I don't buy it. Do you seriously think our lives are more stressful than pioneers who lived 175 years ago? They were popping out 5-7 kids on average. We have every luxury imaginable even in so-called third world countries. Something else is to blame.
@@gaozhi2007 They were popping out 5-7 kids because they needed the extra hands to run the farm and at least half the kids died before the age of 5 from illness. Our live aren't more or less stressful, they're the stress relative to the times we are living in NOW.
@Lord-Inquisitor Vex but the de-stressing doesn't last long when you have to bills to pay like rent or put food on the table or buy clothes
@@blackdotkiller1 but you have a little serotonin booster, running around being awesome the whole time. So it’s not so bad. Makes all the isht, worth it.
Everything we are told by those in power feels a lie, an untruth. Right is wrong. Change must occur in this world for happiness and peace to return. Thank you for the information
Women have to choose to have children again. Only women can make that choice. But ever more increasingly, they are opting out, even bragging and gloating about it on social media.
The real problem is modern women think its slavery to raise a family.
Lol happiness and peace will never happen but nice try