New Rule: Let the Population Collapse | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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"The planet is fine, the people are fucked!"
~ George Carlin
"Pack your shit folks..we're going away." Gawd I miss Carlin.
"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." -George Carlin
@@Omni0404 WHat comedy special is that line from?
Earth wanted plastic, but didn't know how to make it herself. So she made us and now that there's plastic we're not needed anymore
"The planet is fucked , the people are more fucked"
~ me
As an Indian who travels daily by local trains in Mumbai, I approve this message.
Seconded
Ooh, I’ve heard about the “joy” of traveling by train in Mumbai. You are basically forced to smell other people because you’re literally stuck in their armpits.
We need to decentralise population from Metro cities to smaller villages and towns otherwise in few years people will struggle to breathe.
Idiocracy happening 400 years earlier. Educated have stopped producing & idiots are producing as if there is no tomorrow. So ultimately idiots will rule the world & they have already started.
Do us a favor
What drives me crazy is just because there is space doesn't mean we should fill it with people.
I've been preaching about this problem for over a decade. Nobody listened. Everyone censored my comments and banned them.
Amazing that someone else finally caught on. Thanks Bill Maher!
The west doesn't want you to stop them from getting cheap labour.
Yeah but Bill will be the same liberal who says that we shouldn’t enforce our immigration laws and let millions of people in .
You lacked the backing. And, now that it is too late, it comes cheaper.
I think he has been saying this for years.
I'm doing my part! No kids for me!
As are many other Americans. The birth rate is down to 1.7, and has been declining for years now. Millennial's only have a birth rate of 1. Depopulation will happen before the end of the century.
@@jazer426zzzz7 Same here. Having a family wasn't in the cards for me.
@@jazer426zzzz7 You forgot that Western governments are bringing in breeders from other countries at an unparalleled speed, under the guise of "refugees", "migrants", and "foreign workers", and "family of", and "birth tourism".
I used to work as a cell phone sales person. The management said: "Last year was a success, we sold X amount of phones. This year we must sell X+10% or we fail." I'm like, if X was success last year, why is it a failure this year? They didn't like me much there.
because we have a system where shareholder value is paramount - unfortunately investors want more and more growth, every year into infinity or else it's not a considered a valuable investment. Too bad the days of just investing in a solid company are gone - a sizeable chunk of society isn't satisfied with a reasonable return. They want riches and they want it now! We are gluttons.
If you ever ask how much will satisfy the answer will always be more.
You keep on questioning authority, you have my full support. The question you asked, is the kind of question that is asking…why specifically are we doing this, and apparently the adults, and, or our “betters” at work don’t have an answer or have never questioned at all. You keep doing you👍😎
And I doubt they mentioned a raise
The answer is that it is a Ponzi scheme.
We’re all riding on a rock, hurtling through space at 67,000 miles an hour towards almost certain oblivion. Enjoy it while you can, folks.
falling population = rising quality of life for everyone
no it doesn't... Japan's population is collapsing and they're worse off now, there's to many old retired people and not enough young people to work and pay taxes to support the old people. Young people are having to work longer hours and retirement age is getting pushed back further cause such a small amount of young people is needing to support such a high amount of elderly people.
@@dean9620 you have completely missed the big picture. think of it like downsizing a company, people get slashed at first and it's hard, like what's happening with twitter, but its necessary for survival.
@@dean9620Japanese people have always worked very hard. Their population is still huge and house prices are crazy.
Except may those for employers who support both overpopulation and/or overimmigration, to thereby flood labor pools and get away with freezing real wages well below inflation rates. Most Democrats AND Republicans are certainly on board with that too; more people means more services that then need bi-partisan action, which invariably results in larger voter pools and more chances for re-elections.
@@dean9620 Bringing life into existence is unethical. Life is suffering.
I worked at a retail store through college and we would have these weekly huddles to discuss the store’s quarterly sales. Whenever we weren’t able to beat last years sales for that quarter, managers were not happy about this and even dangled “more hours” if we could ‘do better’ next quarter.
I always questioned after these meetings: why all this pressure to beat “last years” sales ? Why can’t we just be content with being maintaining a steady revenue that can sustain the business? People would look at me funny when I would question this and seeing Bill pose this same question really validated the 20 year old me at that time. This way of doing business is no longer sustainable and now globally , others are suffering the consequences because of our greed and stupidity.
A lot of these places don't even offer bonuses to those retail workers who are actually selling the products. Those quarterly sales quotas were just to make the OWNERS more money, not the employees.
Your experience is a major tactic that most capitalistic ventures force on their employees that produces major employee dissolution, and stress, that destroys job satisfaction. Result: Job performance actually suffers over the long term, and consumers rebel against the high pressure tactics to sell them products they may not actually want or need. Your experience, and assessment are so correct!
We have it all wrong. It’s not about being the best. It’s not a competition. It’s not about having the most. It’s about quality.
And our lifestyles affect natural animals and nature itself. This is life that’s essential. Exploitation and destruction is the cause of the impending mass extinction.
$ is not life.
Same story with a company I deal with in logistics. They had "30% growth last year" and in their attempt to grow at least another 30% this year misallocated most of their money and effort and can't meet demand or keep up with that desired growth.
Because Wall St. only looks at short term results and it's all part of their game to get people to trade more so they can charge transactional fees and whatnot. However, in a competitive market, growth is very important lest you lose market share to competitors, but there is a point where a particular niche more or less reaches steady state.
The great Ed Abbey said "Uncontrolled growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell".
I was thinking of the same quote.
Well that's what humans are in relation to this planet.
That's also mentioned in the matrix movie by androids that humans are a parasite
Shame on you for pushing an agenda that someone else is using to deliberately decieve just for a buck.
@@Natasha-nu4fk What agenda is that?
As someone that grew up in North Dakota, I love your ND joke. It sucks. Even at a billion, hardly anyone is going to want to live there 😂
Canada has it worse. 90% of our country is completely uninhabitable. You can't farm the north pole.
Theodore Roosevelt Nation Park is wonderful. Other than that though...
@@taekwondotime On the other hand, In the near future it could be the last place cool enough for aquaculture farming.
@@GeekonaBike Even if Canada warms up from global warming (which it is) there's still the problem of no sunlight as you go farther north. Imagine living in a place where the sun never comes up.
The farther you get from the equator, the less sunlight you get. Although people in Canada are used to it, I remember getting off a plane from Florida to Toronto in January and remembering how the sun went from being this bright yellow circle to a tiny little white dot lower down in the sky. The difference is enormous.
@@taekwondotime Yet somehow Canada manages to be the 5th largest producer of wheat in the world.
Having been raised in the Portland/Metro Oregon area some fifty years ...and an additional 15 years living in Argentina, the degradation of my hometown has left me with a few alternates upon my return which replicate those conditions I found attractive. Since the climate has changed so radically, the population grown so quickly, the wet, cold sparsely populated Pacific Northwest has rapidly become the "new" California. The likes of Southern Alaska seems best now, the wet, cold, obvious seasons, populations...like it once was in Oregon.
Or.....North Dakota?
@@seanwickham8905 North Dakota?, maybe. Ii was thinking more like Ketchikan Alaska....lots of trees, glacier fed rivers, open spaces...My child hood nature retreat of Suttle lake OR. was ravaged by a monster forest-fire, a few years ago, I breifly revisited Oregon in the summer, I was shocked to see Mt. Hood bare of snow, looking like a giant lump of brown dirt....lakes I've plied devoid of water, yes it has changed. As an older guy, I have the benefit of time to notice the changes of the past five decades.
Unfortunately, Ketchikan Alaska has those giant cruise-ships that stop by....no doubt the locals feel like the proverbial chimpanzees behind the glass...
Once again blame corporate developers such as Black Rock/Black Stone all in bed with the government we saw the same in AZ. Now there’s not enough water yet they just allowed a big developer to build a huge water park in their hotel… Really? The little guy can’t water his garden to grow food but big corp can build massive water parks! It’s not the people it’s the government and I don’t care. who you vote for dem or rep they are all the same!
@@pmstff700 But it IS the people, whether watering your garden or a corporate bigwig building a water-park...it's all the same. It really doesn't matter in the long term as the water is slowly but surely running out. And as the Colorado river runs dry before ever getting to the Mexican border, this "running dry" point along the river will only keep going upriver until it strikes a major cities only source of water...once passed that point, the panic will slowly take shape.
@@AndieBlack13... interesting take. I too am an older guy. Mid 60s. I live in southern Illinois and have definitely noticed changes in seasons. Especially winter and spring. We dont have a lack of water problem (yet) but states like Texas are eyeballing our rivers and wanting to siphon it off to raise their beef.
Btw, I have no children.
How many consumers have you offered up for Mr Elon Musk?
We're not living longer, we're being kept alive longer, which I think is as worthy of a topic to address as birth rate.
@@annaku_slugaliciouslionkitty do you not (honestly) understand the different connotations? Yes… technically “living” and “alive” are synonyms. No, they are not the same thing.
That you Richard?
@Anonymous Bosch i understand he's point but he's wrong. people are both being "kept alive" longer in the way he means but people are also active longer than they were a few decades ago. yes medical advances may keep someone alive who is basically a vegetable but they also let others live fulfilling lives for longer.
We are living no differently than in the days of Plato who said a Philosopher-King should be a minimum age of 65, quite stupid remark if folk never lived that long on the regular. .
A self-aware AI will take care of all of this.
The same billionaires who are telling you the earth needs more consumers are the same ones desperately racing eachother to build rockets so they can leave it. So.... yeah... there's that
They earn their billions by people who consume. AKA Don't get facts from those with a vested interest!
THIS ☝️
@@user-jy3zl2vp4b my argument all along! Why do we need to consume so unnecessarily?
We’re being misled.
Space mining is the future.
Or you have guys like John Kerry the so called climate expert that has put out over 300 tons of CO2 this year
An elderly relative in the 90’s made a comment that I thought horrid at the time.
“Since the 60’s only the dim breed in great numbers and those who build/create keep dieing off with one kid at most.”
I’ve noticed since then he’s right.
The smart know how to entertain themselves with non-sexual pursuits while the economically challenged seek the cheapest, easiest to access entertainment and little thought to the train wrecks they drag the accidental children through.
Similar to other dying breeds. Men hunt the strongest animals and leave the weak.
If you haven't, check out the movie "Idiocrscy". The 1st 5 mins seem to have been written by your acquaintance.
@@tonysmith8163 beat me to that one. It's a movie that came out in 2005. The whole premise of the movie is showing what the world will look like in 500 years "if current trends continue."
Ha ha did you do that Biden gibberish on purpose smart people vs poor people? trust me there are smart economicly challenged people and absolutely there are dumb ass trust fund babies. Rich and poor as well as educated and illiterate all have an instinctual desire to procreate. Ild be more inclined to agree that ugly introverted people keep themselves occupied.
The solution to the above comment, the birth control pill, or the Nuva Ring
Didn't like this guy until seeing this video. Couldn't agree more this time!💯 This and the time he talked about Coffee Cups are his best works yet!
Remember in 1989 when Issac Asimov wrote Nemesis and talked about an overpopulated earth with 8 billion people on it? We're here ahead of schedule.
Bill, if the world ends it won't be because of "climate change". Stop with the bull shit about climate change, you are more sensible and reasonable than that. It is not a crisis, it is not a reason to get hysterical about. The climate has and will always change, it has been changing since the beginning of time. There is no evidence that the climate change today is any different from climate change 100 years ago, of 200 years ago. Remember the ice age? When the whole earth was covered in a thick layer of ice and migrants from Asia we're able to cross from one continent to another over an ocean because of the Bering strait being frozen over? Yeah, the earth has gone through much worse phases of climate change than this current one, long before industrialization or pollution or any other anthropogenic cause. For a liberal, you are usually supremely rational, why indulge the far-left, green cultists and environmentalist whack jobs on this issue. I mean only morons like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez believe the world will end in ten years because of climate change, get real. The real thing you should be worried about is the imminent threat of global nuclear annihilation and a nuclear Holocaust, because apparently Russia hasn't learned it's lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis and is more than willing to casually issue threats of nuclear strikes over something as trivial as territory they lost 30 years prior.
Not drew-
There's a lot of futuristic disasters that got here sooner than we thought.
That was a great book. The setting is the 23rd century. People have been fucking a lot.
I'm an American who's been living in Japan for the last 20 years. Bill got the thing down about Japan pretty well. It is a little sad to see towns in Japan's countryside slowly disappear. But as the young people move to the big cities and the elderly population dies off this is one of the side effects. Ironically, Japan has lots of land in the countryside, but no one wants to live there as there's no industry there except tourism and that is rapidly dwindling here also.
The channel Life Where I'm From had a really good video about rural tea farmers in Japan. They definitely aren't very welcoming of letting in new people (western or Japanese) and the communities don't grow when the median age is 60. It's hard to blame them when the best case scenario is break-even earnings, dismal marriage prospects, and a life time of manual labor. When the elderly do pass and leave the land to their children they don't want to sell it or live/work on it so it often just falls into disrepair.
Yeah so. Get out of Coastal CA cities and it is just a sea of rural poor.
Yeah Japan will be okay. I know younger generations will complain about supporting the older generations. But I don't want to hear their complaining. I'm not a boomer, but gen x, but both boomers and us did the right thing by having less kids than prior generations like the Silent generation. We are leaving you all with more resources, so stop complaining. Now if we could get the 3rd world to get their birth rates down to Japan's and South Korea, or even America's. But I don't see that happening. What I do see happening is the 3rd world simply overrunning 1st world countries. Bangladesh is the big one. Their population is enormous, but much of the land will be underwater in 2100. Those people have to go somewhere.
@@donaldkasper8346 you don't hit real rural poor till you get passed Denver and get into Kansas.
@@jimmym3352 You're leaving the world with less minds to solve problems. I wouldn't pat myself on the back if I were a boomer or Gen X'er, and not just for population. At least Gen X can say they were never identity-obsessed, which is a plus in their favor.
Great job! We need to hear more of this!!
I am so tried of hearing people go off on this population collapse thing. We need to start calling it ... sanity. I just can't see any evidence that this won't be a great thing for the average person... and a great humbling moment for the gov't and corporations which are too big.
In Cornwall England we have towns with 3 out of 5 houses unoccupied out of the holiday season while new housing estates are being built on farm land to combat the homeless crisis. What the hell!!??
Same here in Pembrokeshire. In fact, the Presbyterian Church of Wales is kicking an 85 year old woman out of the house she rented from them for nearly 30 years so they can sell it , no doubt to some city person looking for a holiday retreat. How very Christian of them.
You have no clue clue how about you guys do that too much lol I love ya ya know I got a a ton Crane and ya I know what I’m saying is right there and and I
@@enfys6493 that's organized religion for you.
Human greed and stupidity. Again.
in the states they advertise cars for $90,000.
"It's not about space, it's about resources." -Ditto Bill!
We have more resources now than ever before
@@vinnydurham8964 ya and it still not enough
Caus we also have more people now than ever before
@@mokhtarchali7019 we have enough we are just wasteful. Famine is lower now than any time in history. Resources aren't running out
@@vinnydurham8964 We have more PEOPLE than ever before
Then how about you stop consuming for ten or twenty so that someone who wants to have a kid can have one and you don’t try to CONTROL basic human activities like reproduction, you wish the government to be out of drugs and sexuality but not reproduction, get your test done, you will be positive for cult
Good mention of Soylent Green. Very prophetic movie. It may come to pass in some version.
Thankfully that's not very likely to happen. Innovation is currently at an outrageous rate with more technology comes greater efficiency and at current rates it far exceeds population growth. If your interested in what humanities future may look like, watch science and futurism with Isaac Arthur
@@ethannorman739 oh darn. I was looking forward to the crackers. Remember, Soylent green day is Tuesday!!😲
@@ethannorman739 (Norman the Normal Man that No Man, Nor Manual, Normally Ignores is Formally Nordic and Formerly from Normandy? 😁 Pls excuse my crazy)
I really like science; I'm a scientist myself, just not by occupation. However...
Far too many times, that which is good, ethical, and even liked by many, has been destructively overrun in the name of "science"/"efficiency".
The current climate change crises was carelessly caused almost concretely by coal, oil, and natural gas, which science said to use, yet didn't always care about it's effects on waterways, animals, the air, ground, and eventually humans who's resources come from all those things. (K alit. ×7)
I still suspect those sudden sinkholes, some worldwide cities showing several, may stem from "scientific" sites that suck up oil from the ground, changing the geology & seismology of those areas for a LONG time. (S alit. ×12)
I don't want humanity to stop marching toward the future, but at the same time, don't trample what's good in that march. --J
@@jeyruff429People definitely need to think more about the conservation of the environment, but usually when ecological disaster's happened it wasn't really the technology or humanity as a whole that was at fault but, usually the greed and short sighted foolishness of a few individuals. Also although coal, oil, and gas are far from perfect they are the only thing keeping humanity advancing.
In a relatively short time we'll replace them but they have in no small way created a much easier life for almost every human on the planet and that in my mind is worth any temporary negative impact they had.
@@ethannorman739 I must apologize; I cannot believe I forgot to mention my appreciation for fossil fuels, and the many workers who's blood, sweat, and years of tears in that industry gave the USA and the rest of the world such a better life. I am very grateful, and I wish more of any "green warriors" would feel & express the same. YET....
Fossil fuels are NOT the _only_ thing central to human advancement. Science existed well before their discovery (in this case, wood & wax don't count as fossil fuels). You're correct (hopefully) on their replacement in a short time; the agreement we need to reach is: What is too short, and what is too long?
They should also acknowledge the workers in the fossil fuel industry, and offer special transfer help to them and their immediate children who want to get into the renewable industry.
Lastly, you hit a keyword at the end there: "temporary". Plenty of evidence shows that the effects of human-consumed fossil fuels ARE NOT as temporary as we'd need them to be to avoid significantly negative consequences to us humans.
.... Well, _YOU_ humans. I'm an alien.
Peace out, Earthlings! 👽✌️ --J
Bill, you just made the case for immigration enforcement and border control. Thank you.
Yes. No conservatives or religious nuts should be allowed in. We're already over quota.
Why would more immigration lead to more worldwide population growth? If the world plays its cards right, immigration leads to less poverty in the developing world, which in turn decreases birth rates.
@@veganlion8662^^^
@@veganlion8662it also means people want to move in, be successful, consume more, etc. That’s not going to go away, but at least let’s not add any more people to the equation
The equation is planetary and migration reduces that.
The "aged and feeble aka congress" was the best line in this bit
Definitely
Nah.
So true
Yes that was gold!
That was good 😆😜
Love Bill when he hits it out of the park like this video. I've been saying for 20 years the biggest ponzi scheme around are the economists and business analysts that insist we must keep growing our population as the solution to our long term financial obligations instead of just living within our means.
If he believed this so much, why is he living?
Economic models are fake news.
@@jimbob498 He had no choice coming to this world, but he made a choice not to have kids. That's enough contribution.
@@jimbob498 This is my favorite idiot statement. Please next talk about how we can fit the whole worlds population into TX.
Capitalism is the best. It only needs 1.5x more people every generation to cover the fact that it is a ponzi scheme.
100% agreement. Everywhere there are few people, it's a paradise. Everywhere there are many, it's either concrete or a shantytown. Fewer people = better life for all.
If that were true then people would move to North Dakota
OMG, decades ago most people knew each neighbor by name! No mobs rushing thru the streets either. `It must have been Hell on Earth!´ 🤣
As an organic gardener in the Ozarks, every year I have to use more water to get through the hot spells. Higher temperatures and steady southerly winds would kill most things off were it not for hoses and sprinklers.
Try Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”. It’s alarming for different reasons than one would think, refreshingly plain speaking, and well thought out. (He also discusses when he’s been wrong via YT, which is a nice change!). He does address climate change in the most interesting, and I think open, way I’ve seen so far.
The end really is near then. I can't believe "Christians" don't seem to care about climate change despite it being a sign of the end times. Only Jesus can save us and while that's always been true, it rings more true now than ever before.
"We haven't thought it through but who cares." Seems to be the motto of the majority of people these days.
(Like the way people condemn others and demand punishment, cast the first stone- before ever even learning any facts.
Guilty until proven innocent. Common sense is becoming less and less common. It's sad.
It is not common sense that is becoming less common. it is the ability for people to "reason" and figure out reality, that is being destroyed in our schools.
sad indeed
Probably because no developed nation is growing in population from its native population.
Spot on right. The majority of morons mimic the demented corporate aging politicians who are completely out of touch with reality. Greed is good and screw everyone else which means screw the environment and God. Then they say we can fix it when They can't.
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“We haven’t thought it through, but who cares? It seems it would be good for business.” Should be americas mission statement.
It *is* America's mission statement! And the mantra of the tech industry. "Let's keep kids addicted to social media, let's keep everyone thinking they need a new iPhone every 6 months, let's keep replacing human jobs with machines, let's keep piling up plastic & metal garbage infinitely.... Haven't thought any of this through, but good for business in the short-term." 👍
America isn't where the high rate of population increases are happening however.
If that was the case, US founders wouldn't hav made a system that's based on checks and balances,and not having an individual r individual branch of govt having absolute power etc!!
@@mnoble247 no but its where humanity perfected the art of unbridled greed!
@@slh950 And rampant overconsumption!
Kind of amazed to hear Bill essentially speak against a major tenant of capitalism. I fully support his argument, one cannot have never ending exponential growth without these horrific consequences.
I wasn’t amazed that he said it, but was amazed that anyone said it.
Tenet
This was all disproved in the eighties. Musk is 100% right.
When I see a couple with 3 or more kids it's like seeing someone still smoking cigarettes. They can know the dangers of both, but are addicted to their own desires.
Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of a cancer cell---Edward Abbey, the great Southwestern author from Tucson.
Yep the corporate model we must grow--grow
Husband used to work for Autozone in 2017 the stock was $700/share--look at what it is today $2100/share
He was the store manager all he saw was dwindling growth and playing games with employees not firing them but reducing their hours on the schedule every week until they quit--he knows those stock numbers are an artificial bubble they created
Facts
Think the earth is overpopulated? Ok, then please see yourself out.
@@rickmorty5215 Just stop the collectivists and it will sort itself out....the weak were never meant to survive...Natures law, not ours..
@@rickmorty5215 Think the earth's resources are infinite to sustain perpetual growth of one organism that continues to wipe out all other lifeforms in its industrialized wake of insatiable greed? You too can see yourself out. Nothing on a defined sphere is infinite, except maybe ignorance & denial.
i still remember as a child...all the bees out around neighborhoods just buzzing...those were the good ol days...now i have to go out of my way to find bees...if any...
The best cause that I’ve seen Bill take up. Thank you Bill for talking about this. Too many think talking about reducing the population is taboo or even racist. We are doing incalculable damage to the wildlife population and breeding ourselves into huge future problems.
"...Soylent Green?..." Totally right Bill - we might not be too far from that scenario...(younger viewers may need to google this one)
Interestingly, Soylent Green (1973) was set in the year 2022 !
And did you notice that the climate was hot, dry, dusty, and windy? The term global warming didn't exist then, but the film is eerily spot on about so many things, like drought, food shortages, homelessness, civil unrest, street crime, assisted suicide and corporate government 😮
I cannot say enough how much I love Bill for bringing this up. It’s obvious to all of us on the ground but not to those in the ivory towers checking their stock reports
I’m sorry but I must disagree with that statement. It’s obvious that the problem lies with those on the “ground” because they are the ones who can’t stop reproducing while those in their “towers” are only exploiting that need… the people in the “towers” usually don’t have a lot of babies hence why they are living there…
Buisness man don't give a fuck about shortages. They are like an alcoholic person who comes to his senses when he has done too much damage.
Reminds me of the inscription on the Georgia Guidestones, to limit the population to 500,000,000 worldwide and leave room for nature.
But of course, those inscriptions made sense, so the whole structure was bombed by some lunatic and dismantled.
Never underestimate the power of ignorance and stupidity.
@@Factonise Many times, even this is not enough, and someone else has to "bring them to their senses" since they are no longer capable of it.
@@user-hf2dr7sh4y Yeah, Mother Nature has been trying to do this for decades, but the CCP suffers from the same disease as all dictators - they think they are above the law. They may be above man-made laws but have not yet realized that no one is above natural laws.
I can imagine that George Carlin would applaud Bill, but also roll his eyes because he put out the same message long ago. Thank you Bill, this is spot on, long-term thinking!
I think he'd do so as well, but the eye roll would be for a different reason in my eyes. That reason being Bill is spinning it in a "the planet and nature is fucked", which George would not agree with, given his clear monologues on the topic, with his most famous and repeated line being "The earth will be just fine, but the people... the people are fucked." And to that, I couldn't agree more with George on the topic. He's spot on. The earth is going to be perfectly fine. It's humanity that's literally voluntarily suiciding itself from existence and into extinction.
@@TheCriminalViolin I stand corrected. George was in fact taking the mickey out of the 'save the planet' people. Indeed, the planet will fine - and likely glad to be rid of us!
He goes where the money is...that's all....long-term thinking makes any turn that has a dollar sign...
What long term thinking?
Mam, USAs total fertility is below 2. Among white population, the fertility is at 1.6. Very low. USAs population growth is sustained by Asian Americans and Hispanic population. At this rate, I long term, USAs population will become older on average. World in general and USA in particular, needs many kids.
@@TheCriminalViolin "perfectly fine" in geological terms. Carlin was making a joke. Ecosystems and the billions of species on those will suffer just as us, for several generations. Don't pretend you didn't understood that
"What are we an alien on a space ship?" Yes, yes we are.
What do these people think, that water just falls from the sky?
What drives me nuts is that corporations control the world and what they created is a throw away society. I still have a 13 inch RCA color TV that works, can't pick up anything abd I only use it for my Atari 2600. My mom had a RCA console TV that lasted 25 years before the picture tube went and since there is noone to fix it she had to get a modern TV that one started having issues within 5 years, and that is actually good compared to other TV's on the market. A new TV is less expensive than it is to fix an old one. That is a real problem. Apple/Samsung creates a new phone every year and you are lucky if it lasts 2 years before it fails. This concept of throw it away and get a shiny new one is the downfall of the world. I recently had to get a new/used ATV as my old one is from 2004 and only a certain dealership can get the parts and they are hard to find due to it being old and if it breaks down again those parts will not be available. The stuff they create today is unfixable junk and ends up in a landfill leaking hazardous chemicals into the groundwater. But having products that last a lifetime is not profitable.
planned obsolescence .. it's good for business not for the planet ..
Yes! I buy, sell and repair Macbook pros (Becca's Macs on FB 2000 members) and I still use my 2009 iMac--its not limited at all! It is a TANK! The Mac Pros up to 2012 can still replace hard drives, batteries, fans and ram etc.
The new Mac Pros NOTHING can be replaced, when they break they are throw away buy a new one
I can't sell 2014 pros anymore everyone says "they're too old" I reply with I have a 2010 15" pro I use everyday to run my business and a 2009 iMac for the home--what is it little Timmy can't do on a 2014? Well my business has gone under now where for the last 10 yrs I made enough in profit to live off and hired 1 employee--the throw away culture has ended my business!!
Yo, you're a champ. I have one of those tvs too, and I totally use it for my atari 2600. Great minds think alike :)
Absolutely!!! Same for washing machines, dish washers etc..
I would say it is our ravenous appetite for the ease and convenience the big corporations and their products offer. It is definitely a symbiotic downward spiral.
If we're truly concerned about the environment we should also consider the overconsumption of food that is running rampant in western civilization. The environmental impact of people eating more calories than their bodies need is massive. It's not only food production, but clothing too.
if we are truly concerned about the environment we should wipe out all of africa india and china.
I never noticed it until I had adult housemates, most people are basically overgrown children and incredibly wasteful.
Ruining large batches of food because they can't wait to finish cooking before getting drunk. Taking way too much then dumping out half a plate or more.
Not just food, they are suckers for shiny packages and disposable garbage products. I had to convince everyone I know that I don't believe in gift exchange, because I was tired of my trash being filled with useless overpriced shit.
Yes we need to ration fat wasteful human beings for the good of the environment and put them on a steady diet of bugs
You are right. But I would like to add the wastage of food would be more of a concern in that regard.
More importantly, in my opinion, the consumption of animal products, where animal agriculture is incredibly resource-inefficient.
Can't ignore the fact that many more couples now have lower than 2 babies, who in 20 years would give a very different landscape of young to old ratio.
I would even argue that it IS about space. It's NICE having space. Space to roam, space to hike, open road to go for leisurely drives. Space for forests and wetlands. Wide open spaces are NICE, can we NOT rush to fill them all up?
Forests and wetlands that produce drinking water and keep the soil fertile. We have water in Florida because a tenth of the state is a swamp. And it is more like a fifteenth.
If you are talking about outer space forget it? we are no closer to colonizing any other planets then we ever have been. that's an Elon Musk pipe dream.
When I was in grade school in the 50s we went for a school trip to the Hayden Planetarium. There was a large globe showing the worlds population throughout history in a timeline with lights. At first the globe was dark. Then little by little the lights began to light , then faster and faster until the present. Then the timeline was projected into the future until the globe was one large light. I may have been seven or eight but I saw the writing on the wall right then and there. I was a budding environmentalist from that moment on. None of what is happening has been any surprise to me. When politicians speak of unlimited eternal economic growth I have to just sit back and shake my head. All I can say is we get what we deserve. One reason I don't think men like Elon Musk are very bright.
@j. dragon
Let me ask you, do you want a welfare state or ANY kind of social programs? Well you cannot logically support Bill Maher's position on this.
Since decreasing birthrates means that there'll be less young people, and thusly a hell of a lot less tax payers to actually pay for the programs you people desire. You can say goodbye to just about any government program if birthrates continue to decline.
This is the problem with all the childless and birthrate collapse loving leftists. They're actively supporting the death of the possibility of a welfare state. Since these people are usually upper middle class, and thusly them having more birthrates means there'll be a more taxable workforce.
The only way to make a state function long-term without replacement level birthrates, is to either get rid of every spending program and go down the road of full laissez faire capitalist bullshit, or to go towards some dystopian hellhole where you'll never get to retire, and get shot when you can't work anymore.
Have you ever bought a digital item?
You're literally describing propaganda. It's funny how the same people that force the borders open to import cheap labor also pressure anyone educated not to reproduce.
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As a child of adoption I've never wanted children of my own and was happy to learn I am sterile. I have nothing against people who want children of their own, but when you're having upwards of 8 children you need to really stop and start adopting. It's selfish and if you want more kids so badly why can't you love a child who has never known it?
Why would it be selfish there’s nothing wrong with loving children and having alot
I was on birth control and had 5 (two sets of twins) celibacy and sterilization since -I never thought this could happen
@@brandonjade2146 why? Because that’s a lot of fucking mouths to feed.
@@pickplayer8347 people should be allowed to have as much kids as they want man
As a former foster child I feel very similar. I won't have any biological children, because there are already enough people on this world. I am however more than willing to foster children that are already here.
The reasons some countries are worried about population decline is that they then won't have enough workers to contribute taxes to support their countries' economies. And the last people who will suffer, will be the ultra wealthy who are much better insulated.
Less people on the planet wouldn't _just_ be great for the planet itself, it would also be great for the people still on it. Labor laws and worker's rights don't have much of a leg to stand on, when the "labor pool" of desperate working-age adults is so high that employees who strike/quit are easily replaceable.
One of the ugly truths I learned in economics 101 is that capitalism requires (indeed, it creates) desperate workers who are willing to work cheap.
I see a future America, balkenised into seas of obscene poverty dotted by fortified islands of obscene wealth 😢
The human race is Thelma and Louise at the end of the movie: going off the cliff with our foot on the gas knowing full well that there's no happy ending and just saying "F*ck it"
People care, in fact 81+ million people cared and believe in climate change and conservation and alternative energy and curbing waste and pollution and consumption. It's the dirty, corrupt politicians who are 100% willing to burn tomorrow to stay warm today!
I'm a former liberal, then a republican, now more centrist. I think Bill is a breath of fresh air. He reminds me of a lot of my liberal friends who are open to conversation.
That's like trying to see a lions reflection in tree bark at the zoo. Leftist are blindfolded cult members with their fingers in there ears wishing to punch phantoms in the face because the TV told them to.
@Russ Ingram He's the least rich among "the rich". You should focus on the 1%, look at the Forbes Billionnaire list, that's a start.
"Stop fucking rudding! Just for a day! Lets figure out this food, air deal."
-Bill Hicks
He is absolutely correct. Business wants more people because they want more workers and customers.
About time population was brought up in the Climate change conversation. The loudest Climate alarmists don't seem to equate more people with more consumption of everything.
EXACTLY. too many people both cause the problem, and suffer the effects. Why isn't that obvious?
Not sure where you’ve been but population is almost the only thing they brought up for years. More recently there has been more sophisticated push back on that flawed Malthusian notion.
Yes because they have shout sight. All want to breed children to occupy their vacuous lives.
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So how do we reduce population?
I remember my dad saying, that there was a discussion by L.A. city officials in 1940, that there was "Too many people in L.A.". The population then, was 1,504,277. It is now: 12,459,000. That's city...NOT county numbers.
Ew. That's too many plastic people.
L.A. city is not 12 million. NYC doesn't even have 12 million. L.A. city is a little over 4 million. L.A. County may be 12 million. The metro area I believe is over 15 million.
Source on the number please.
Yes and it is a shyte hole from hell as a result
Not city. Metropolitan statistical area. 2020 U.S. Census says MSA is 13.2 million. City is 3.973 million. It’s a lot of people. New York City has just over 20 million in the Metropolitan statistical area and 8.8 million in the actual city.
Ty Bill!!!
A Population environment balance is crucial and we don’t have it
The carrying capacity
theory Speaks to this
Sustainability in consumerism has become a thing. The issue is it goes against current business models.
Good thought
But Market economy will collapse with sustainability.
Overconsolidation is the problem. Stop letting the oligarchy shift the blame onto you for their own misdeeds. They manufacture scarcity.
Maybe so, but if the growth of the population out paces the reduced use of resources by each individual, consumption continues to increase on a defined planet with limited resources. If I'm driving a fifty-year-old car, it may burn more fuel than a hybrid, but due to the demand of more consumers & advances in production capabilities, there are millions more hybrids & humans on the road than there ever was of my car fifty years ago. Is that real progress, or just denial to justify the continued spread of the cancer known as man?
They gotta own the libs by destroying the planet
@@erichancock6815 We are not a cancer, but on a natural expansion due to available resources. Inevitably, the expansion begins to contract when we outpace the resources. It happens constantly as a design of nature.
The issue with population decline isn't the amount of people but the Disparity between the old and the young like in Japan and that is suffering because there are more elderly than young adults.
That problem is temporary. Economies adjust, and over time the nation will reach a new equilibrium as lower birth rates means less elderly when that generation ages.
That's a problem of fountain-of-youth obsessed people. Normal biological longevity is reproductive age. Any year past that should be seen as a blessing, not be a demand for governments to fulfil!
Yup, demographic curves are predicting more old people than young,Mèxico has being predicting this in its own country and not much is being done despite knowing
that's because our grandparents didn't have access to birth control and had 14 kids (like my grandparents). The children from these large families are now in their 50s, 60s and 70s. This will balance out when this generation is gone.
@@hayimemaishtee as I recall, back in the eighties the average woman in Mexico had about five kids. Now it is half that, and the country is much more prosperous. That is no coincidence. Same with China. Chairman Mao rewarded families who had many children. Many starved. When they enacted their one child policy they began to prosper. A simple calculation will show that if they had maintained the population growth rate of the time the introduced the one child policy, they would have added approximately the same number of people currently in the US to their current population. It should be noted that the US is the third most populated country in the world.
Population explosion was a huge concern 50 years ago when I was a teenager, when the world population was 3.3 billion. Its now 8 billion, and the standard of living has substantially approved. I like Bill Maher as a comedian. As an economist or scientist, he is lousy. Sadly his audience swallows his flawed perspective.
Of course 8 billion is a lot. But the issue is, some countries will still 2x - Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, while others are already declining - all of Eastern Europe pretty much. No country wants to be 2x less significant then they are now, so they panic. Like here in Poland the declining birth rate is one of the main political issues.
I am in my 50s and have long been concerned that in my minute lifetime the World Population has more than doubled. I am not asking for a population correcting pandemic, but we need reproductive responsibility.
Does china still have that 1-2 kid law? Maybe the world will do that in the future
Or maybe make it so you have to make a certain amount of money to be able to have more than 2 kids
I always have thought that people having 3+ kids is selfish, even with money there is not time for individual attention plus the demanding resources for our planet...
No: don’t get caught in the new dogma.
@@jeffreydurm Let me ask you, do you want a welfare state or ANY kind of social programs? Well you cannot logically support Bill Maher's position on this.
Since decreasing birthrates means that there'll be less young people, and thusly a hell of a lot less tax payers to actually pay for the programs you people desire. You can say goodbye to just about any government program if birthrates continue to decline.
This is the problem with all the childless and birthrate collapse loving leftists. They're actively supporting the death of the possibility of a welfare state. Since these people are usually upper middle class, and thusly them having more birthrates means there'll be a more taxable workforce.
The only way to make a state function long-term without replacement level birthrates, is to either get rid of every spending program and go down the road of full laissez faire capitalist bullshit, or to go towards some dystopian hellhole where you'll never get to retire, and get shot when you can't work anymore.
@@Autconscipatheonive I appreciate your insight. To your point global population growth is not necessarily aligned with global birth rate.
This was the hot topic when I was a kid, 50 years ago. It was a priority for Bush I, until it was explained to him and others that in order to make huge amounts of money, that we needed an ever growing population. Earth be damned.
Also helps that Malthus was a pseusocientfic moron and all his predictions turned out to be the opposite of reality.
Elites love him though.
I've been convinced for almost 60 years it's the one main problem we're not concerned about but should be. Nothing has changed in all that time.
I think. Bush and his friends have decided, they have enough now.
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It's not the amount of people, the fact people don't know why this change is happening is the start of the problem.
One of the simplest solutions (in my mind) is the one thing that no one seems to want to do: learn to live within our means. One of the major obstacles that I can see is that we live in a culture that worships its commodities populated with people who just can’t say no to the things that “society” tells hem that they “deserve”.
If we could change our culture and way of thinking, it would solve 90% of our problems before we ever got to govt policy.
Ok when Obama stops building homes on the water , Kerry stops flying private-then I will worry
@K Ham ....when they stop space tourism.
@@kham6006 Yeah, because these are major issues 🙄
@@ranndino When the literal outcry of climate change is based on "Seas rising" and "CO2 emissions", it's a very major issue. Why build a seafront home if the sea will supposedly swallow it up in a few years? Why not utilize zoom to hold climate conferences instead of multiple private flights by each delegate to sit in a room and complain about the very emissions they are attributing to? The hypocrisy in the actions far outweighs the words they use to fearmonger.
So True!
🌍I’ve been asked to donate my dollars to many charities that are promoting…
“Feed the Children”
Starting in the 80’s My response to the charity organizations…”I’ll donate to their charities when they spend the same amount of dollars on Birth Control education & support”
(Usually stops them in their tracks)🌍
breed the children - africa.
The problem with overpopulation is that the only people that really think about it are not the people who make the most kids.
To anybody who thinks there are too many people on Earth, I invite you to lead by example.
Ever since I realized world population has doubled since Nixon, everything just makes so much more sense
its gone from 1billion to 8 billion in 100 years too
Once I found out that if you make 41k a year you are in the top 3% of the richest people on the planet. That's when I realized those wealthy they are always calling greedy and making everybody elses life suck and want to take it from them, is us.....3 billion live on less than 1000 dollars a year...
@@barrywalls7175 it was 1.86 billion in 1922 with some estimates as high as 2 billion. Still 4x in one century is crazy.
Yup, no matter what we do, much of the world keeps breeding.
And then we import their excess population to have more taxable youths to provide for our elderly. Just like we import their carbon emitted products so that we don't have to emit it here. Well, that's what you get with a population that's 50% frauds and 50% assholes.
@@xsuploader mother nature corrects problems if you let her. Infertility rates increase but mankind has found ways around that. Homosexuality increases but they two want children ,they can use surrogacy or if it's two women get spent donor.natural disasters diseases, and unfortunately suicide rates along with murder increase.
The world population in 1960 was just over three billion. There were plenty of large cities for those who like living in them (and normal middle class people could still afford to live in cities such as San Francisco and New York), and I don't think anyone was looking around back then thinking to themselves "There are far too few humans on this planet."
The politically incorrect answer is: modern medicine does not allow sick people to die.
Or thinking to themselves "There are far too many humans on this planet."
@@germanevision modern medicine extends lives and that's not always a good thing.
@@brandocalrissian3294 We’ll be turning off your life support then!
In 1960 there were fewer than 100000 80+ year olds in the U.S. There are 2-3 Million alive today in the U.S. The fertility rate is 25% what it was in 1960. The population is growing older. Look at our last two geriatric presidents.
We all should know damn well bill won't give up watering his marijuana but you should give up showering once a day
Bill is Malthusian??
I think everything is clearer now!
I like his sense of humor,I admit that 😉
Thank you, thank you, thank you finally someone states the obvious. We’ve added 100 million people to the US and now we don’t have enough water. Droughts have always happened periodically, but California didn’t have 40 million people that wanted to drink, bathe, do laundry or have irrigated crops to eat throughout history. Yes we can build desalination plants, but they use a tremendous amount of energy. People say “Well let’s just use solar panels”, but they have issues with creating huge amounts of toxic waste and taking huge amounts of land out of the ecosystem that we need to keep the natural cycles working. We can’t just engineer a complete environment and ecosystem without nature or we would already be living on Mars.
That's a straw-man. We could support many more, with sane infrastructure, which could only happen under different economics than our current vampiric capitalism (which isn't at all a "free market").
Uh, do know how long it took the US to add 100,000,000 people? It took 100 years literally. And the droughts that are happening are not because of an increase in population mostly, but mostly because of climate change due to global warming.
But because of climate change, huge parts of the west including California are about to become deserts. It will take about 10-20 years to happen, but it is going to happen.
@@rabbit251
And that's mostly because of oil and industry, hence capitalism.
According to the census bureau the population was 226 million in 1980 and 331 million in 2020. That’s more than 100 million in forty years. But we have a lot of undocumented people which makes the climb even higher. Also your correct that capitalism is a factor because it raises the quality of life for the masses and that is why people come here. Socialism creates hardship and does decrease population but that is not a smart solution to population growth
@@oscarbauer1322 How exactly does socialism create hardship? The US started socialism under FDR with works programs and social security and later added Medicare and Medicaid under Johnson. How have any of those programs created hardship?
Europe and Japan have adopted even broader versions of socialism to ensure that everyone is cared for with including national health insurance.
Perhaps you don't understand what socialism is?
Oh man, this is so needed. Why would anyone in their right mind want to trade the few magnificent wild spaces we have left for "suburbs" and trailer parks. Why would we want to turn into China?? The only people who want this are the wealthy who prefer a labour pool that is numerous and desperate to the point of compliance. Plus, the lessons of history are that when a population decline occurs, the middle class gets more prosperous. Granted, previous declines have been involuntary (plague, etc), but we could manage it at a level that avoids that kind of trauma.
Please tell this to Canadians...because we are literally doing this through our stupid immigration policies. What Bill Maher just said here would be considered racist in Canada. What is happening? Well finite resources like: homes, food, cars are seeing insane price hikes in Canada. Not to mention the carbon footprint of bringing someone from a third-world country to here would dramatically increase their carbon footprint. Our healthcare system is failing, our highway infrastructure stalling - the govt refuses to build more, but keeps bringing in a record number of people. The defense is..."well, we need someone to do these crappy jobs that locals will not do for garbage tier wages...let them immigrants do it", so we have insane wage stagnation. Result is: a crumbling infrastructure with insanely unaffordable life, do not come to Canada.
The wealthy want the poor to keep breeding. That way poor kids fight in the wars and work the dangerous jobs so the children of the wealthy don't have to.
My buddy in Texas worked for a company that built suburbs and his whole job was going out to sites where they were chopping down forests to pave it over. He made gooood money but he quit after six months because he got depressed.
What the hell are you talking about? Are you really that naive? China is a huge country, they have more wild spaces than human spaces. China is becoming the top super power in the world because partly because of their population. The big problem with the US is that our government doesn't give two craps about its people
Worse still, why would we want to turn into Bangladesh? A place with a higher population density than China?
"Food insecurity" 😆 Good to see what's NOT in short supply is News Speak.
First world slows down and third world speeds up
Bill Maher doesn't understand how bad that is
Because first worlders are just as dumb as third world people, but have cell phones.
"Put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, and in a year there would be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman in the 1970s.
10 years ago financial capitalism nearly destroyed the US and global economy in an orgy of reckless, crooked deals. The _government_ pays for by working taxpayers, bailed them out and rescued the system. But still there's a goldfish who has forgotten 2009 but quotes 1970...
"Put the free market in charge of clean air, and in a week people would have to pay for air or otherwise they'd die."
- Someone who is not a complete simp for unregulated capitalism, but understands that both government and corporations are necessary *and* need to be restrained.
@@doubleextreme3143 but the clean air will cost less than current inflation much less other taxes.
Right on!!!
How many times on the past when Bill is bitching about Millennials and Gen Z, and complains that they're not reproducing fast enough?
Be wary. It doesn't take much to turn "We need less of us" into "We need less of 'those people' "
The reverse is also true. Lots of people who are saying "we need more people" are implying "we need more people like me so we can defeat the people who are not like me"
Correct.
@@Odima16 Loser.
What about people saying that to be alive is an amazing gift? And the data that shows that with more people, we have more food and less poverty than ever before - and not from stealing lol. From productivity and innovation - created by... people :) wonderful people.
There is some merit maybe to some of this, until it gets practical, who is not allowed to have kids, or forced abortions etc. ugly real quick
@@cordeauxboi cornucopian b*llsh*t. As he pointed out. Limited potable water and resources for growing food. One child is good, two are enough, zero is great.
Been saying this for years and people look at me like I’m crazy..but we need less people on the planet, not more. We shouldn’t be congratulating our indulgence.
Little does he know we actually have a huge population replacement issue.
Where? In the US? There's plenty of replacements streaming in from the southern border. Are you saying they don't count? Are they the wrong color? They may not replace one for one as in education status and credentials but they are mouths to feed you know. Since the border will NEVER be protected to the degree necessary, I would say (again) that we do not have a replacement problem as the 3rd world baby factories have an endless supply. With sanctuary cities and states sweetening the pot, who wouldn't want to come here?
He addressed the Musk reasoning in the vid
US is 4% of global population, but consumes nearly a quarter of global energy
Not True !!!!
@@mickyboymccoy7632: It's closer to truth than fiction.
America consumes 25% more energy per capita, than all other nations. That number also reflects the massive amounts of energy consumed by the largest military the world has ever seen, the U.S. military, spread across the globe with over 800 admitted military bases. Which that in itself would be dangerous consumption, but coupled with the actual energy consumption of war, which the U.S. is engaged in everyday somewhere around the world, you can easily see how it all adds up.
And while America represents less than 5% of the world's population, it incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners. That's another factual statistic that I have no doubt you'll object to, but is none the less true.
@@Vanderearden We also produce a lot of that energy and use it to feed and clothe people all over the world. What are we supposed to do? "Sacrifice" and live like Third World peasants? That won't do any good. Life is not a zero-sum game.
@@rimshot2270: I'm not even sure how to respond to your misguided ideas.
While America has been the global leader in pumping oil for 8 years, it is NOT the leader in oil production. Hence, the skyrocketing price of fuel, a lack of refinement production. That and good old fashioned price gouging, done under the cover of inflation. America hasn't built a refinery since 1979, and in that time has lost half a dozen facilities due to aging out and catastrophic damage. Oil is useless unless it's refined into fuel, and right now, America's remaining refineries are running at max capacity, creating an artificial shortage due to a staggering lack of refining capacity. By design.
And this idea that America feeds and clothes the poor around the world is a ludicrous myth. America can't even feed, cloth and house it's own.
America is sanctioning over 35 countries. Ask the poor folks of Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, Libya, etc. how helpful America has been to them.
After 20 years and 6 trillion dollars spent in Afghanistan, helping those people, America immediately slapped sanctions on them when departing. America is now actively starving to death the very people they claimed to be helping for 20 years.
It's time to put to bed this idea of "American Exceptionalism". America is in a death spiral and none of these grandiose myths are gonna save it until American citizens wake up to the reality of America's failing imperialism.
@@Vanderearden Folks in the USA may use 25% more energy per person than say those in India etc. with our Washers and Dryers and such. But we don't use 25% of worlds global energy or contribute 25% of the earth pollution.
Now go home and get your shine-box!!
Thank you Bill for stating this fact! I’ve been saying this for decades now and it’s only made me a pariah. Our system is entirely based on never ending growth which I is also the nature of cancer- it won’t end well
Complaining about our "predilection to f***" is funny coming from a man who was a frequent guest at the Playboy Mansion when Hugh Hefner was alive.
@@rimshot2270 He is in the comedy business. The problem lies in policy. All “western” nations have birth rates hovering at around 1.7 per couple I believe, it’s just that the governments are deep in debt therefore requiring population increases to service the debt which is why immigration from poor countries is pushed. In poor countries having lots of kids is what gives the elderly security in retirement
@@jamesbuscher701 If he wants to criticize governments, which is his right, he must accept the right of other people to criticize him. He thinks he is more than a comic, no matter what he says.
Well, if you think "overpopulation" is a real problem...
...then you'll be very happy to learn that our Malthusian "Elite" *have **_already done something_** about it!*
If you haven't caught on yet, you will...
@@rimshot2270 Maybe he made sure those young ladies practiced birth control. You're just jealous cause he got laid by beautiful women.
Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School who was chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush, was third to testify. A political independent, Painter said Americans should get on board with the push to end climate misinformation no matter where they fall on the political spectrum.
“This is not a partisan issue,” said Painter, who was also invited by Whitehouse. “This is about caring, and doing something about a grave threat to the human race.”
More than doubled in my 63 years. Feeling stress we cant define. I believe population anxiety is real. Cars are a deficit. Consumerism out of control.
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! The only downside of a decreasing population is the breakdown of infinite growth models for businesses. But lets face it, a shrinking economy would be worth it as long as the planet is still a place worth living. We love ya Bill!
The population goal for the planet is 500 million. It makes sense if we never leave the planet.
@@chaschristiansen That goal of 500,000,000 was inscribed on the Georgia Guidestones, which was bombed and dismantled about three weeks ago.
It's why I have no hope for the future of our species. The powers of ignorance, stupidity and greed are just too entrenched.
@@donmiller2908 Bombed? You sure about that?
@@donmiller2908 you thinks it's not the greedy who want population decline? It's our most elite that think they will be the survivors. Elites all have children and pass policy making children and life in general consistently more complicated. This won't end with a decline in world population just a restructuring of world dominance and a return to lots of war.
@@donmiller2908 ahh yes. 500 million white people you mean. Oh please.
The earth can sustain around 80 to 100 billion people before we would need to find a way to replace the resources we used up.
By then, we would have had more innovations in recycling and food science.
We'll be fine.
Coming from a religious family, when I bring up that I don't want to have kids there's this huge shock and often religion gets interjected into the conversation.
Yes. I legitimately think that certain religious groups that emphasize the “go forth and procreate” bit as part of their religion are doing it deliberately, for a reason. They know fully well that sane people are not going to convert to their beliefs. And the old guard is dying off. So, the only way they are going to sustain their church is to have a boatload of kids, who a) are much easier to teach belief systems to than adults who already have one, and b) don’t have a choice where they get sent to church.
@@011angelfire but that same bible contains this:
Ecclesiastes 4:3 - "But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun."
Job 3:16 - "Why wasn't I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?"
Matthew 26:24 - "For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!"
The problem with the bible is that it contains about 700 contradictions. you can always find a verse to abuse for your own cause, therefore I argue the bible is an illegitimate source when used in an argument.
You’re gonna realize when your old, you made a horrible mistake. Nothing to do with religion, everything to do with care.
The argument that overpopulation harms this delicate planet falls on deaf ears when those sheep have been indoctrinated to believe that a world created by all-powerful mythical sky people, specifically for man, cannot be harmed by man, which is also why such narrow, brainwashed minds don't believe in the damaging effects of climate change. Ignorant denial is the only infinite resource of cultist sheep.
Don't get bullied. It aint for everyone.
The fertility rate in America is 1.7 and falling. Given 2.1 is replacement, population collapse is a undeniable fact. It's only not noticeable cause America is proping up there population with mass immigration, but that's a temporary fix as birthrates are plummeting everywhere in the world.
Elon Musk is simply looking ahead a couple of decades in time. In a couple of decades the media will eventually catch up and won't be able to ignore population collapse and the problems it'll be causing to the country.
Respect to Elon Musk for talking about this upcoming issue early, despite being mocked for it.
But fertility rates are NOT plummeting everywhere around the world, only in the richer countries. The poorer countries are continuing to produce people at an alarming rate. Because of improved mortality rates, Africa's sub-Saharan countries will double their population by 2050, and then double again by 2100, according to the U.N.
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So true. I was born and raised in California and the population has doubled since I was a kid in 1970s. I wouldn’t say the overall quality of life here has actually improved over that 45 year span except for air pollution which has been greatly reduced. We still have too many people for the limited water supply and our aging infrastructure.
Get rid of the almonds-first step
thats because of how yall vote
No people had kids in small towns and they moved to the city's and imagination targeted city's. And so on and so on .
California's had too many people since the turn of the century - the 19th century!
@@mytrashguypa Nope.
Here in America, when people celebrate couples having 5 children l, I wonder what they are exactly celebrating. It’s madness.
Other than more people to pay my future social security, I have no idea… not cause for celebration
Yeah, this issue is probably due for a rebranding. It should be referred to as "workforce decline" or something like that for the next 30 years or so.
More population brings more profit to corporations and businesses as labor becomes cheaper. Capitalism loves population as it makes them work and consume at the same time.
Corporations like cutting costs and hours and firing people to increase profits
This is why I never had kids and adopted one.
Thank you!
I just want to say... THANK YOU !!!!!! so nice to see someone telling the hard truths
@Antony O'Callaghan Let me ask you, do you want a welfare state or ANY kind of social programs? Well you cannot logically support Bill Maher's position on this.
Since decreasing birthrates means that there'll be less young people, and thusly a hell of a lot less tax payers to actually pay for the programs you people desire. You can say goodbye to just about any government program if birthrates continue to decline.
This is the problem with all the childless and birthrate collapse loving leftists. They're actively supporting the death of the possibility of a welfare state. Since these people are usually upper middle class, and thusly them having more birthrates means there'll be a more taxable workforce.
The only way to make a state function long-term without replacement level birthrates, is to either get rid of every spending program and go down the road of full laissez faire capitalist bullshit, or to go towards some dystopian hellhole where you'll never get to retire, and get shot when you can't work anymore.
No solution, though. Don't have kids, please.
Unfortunately, overpopulation is not a problem and Bill is wrong in this case.
@@Autconscipatheonive first : " you people " ?
Second : what if your country actually started taxing the rich. Oh and don't tell me they do because the amount is just ridiculous. Here in France I give 60 % of my income in taxes because I earn a lot and have a lot of properties. Also hey !! Here's a great idea : let's start taxing mega churches, how about decreasing military budget, government budget etc... I mean the possibilities are endless. But hey let's automatically say it's impossible and that it wouldn't work instead of actually looking for solutions 😅
@@bertulfthewise9177 That's like saying that coal is clean energy.
Life on this planet had a pretty good run. Then along came us.
I like Bill. I usually don’t agree with most of his views, but I respect him and I’m 100% with him on this. By the way, I put my money where my mouth is, my wife and I chose never to have children. At least there are 1-3 less people here on earth 👍🏽
Thank you for your sacrifice, so I could have many children
@@Natemesis hey, it's your money to waste
@@verbalkint4258 I've found estimates on costs of children wildly exaggerated, and usually with built in assumption of college costs. I paid my way and they can pay theirs if they desire. I've also found the return on children to be very rewarding. But we all spend money in our own way.
@@Natemesis I think people should not be like sows. We are not meant to have litters.
Thanks. We Republicans are thankful you've chosen to eliminate yourselves from the gene pool.
I realized in 1969, at 10 years old, that Southern California had way too many people. I watched Dana Point Harbor be built, rolling hills get flattened to put up expensive new homes, and increasing traffic smother the freeways. Because of all this, I never wanted any kids, because it was obvious to me that there was plenty of them already.
But this is just one small area when you consider the millions of acres of land around the world. Cities are overcrowded so don't live there. It is common sense and logic which we have a generation of people now who have no idea what that is. It is truly sad to think there are millions of people out there who have no idea what to do if and when they have no cell phone, no electricity, no running water, no Walmart to get food from, no nothing in the cities. Can you imagine what the chaos and confusion will be happening when this happens? Why aren't people thinking about this scenario? Move away from these overcrowded polluted cities with poisoned water and prepackaged food full of chemicals and preservatives rhat are killing us with cancer and heart disease and diabetes and obesity. Run away to the country and learn how to plant a garden and how to live without electricity and cell phones like my parents and grandparents did. I'm so ad and blessed I was taught how to live that way. Parents need to teach their kids about this survival type living by camping and showing them how to survive without the things they believe they cannot survive without before it's too late.
@@debradale6305 Urbanization has saved nature, if everyone lived in the country the countryside would be f@#cked.
You are a typical left wing liberal not wanting kids thank goodness future generation is going to be more traditional and conservative.
Good your line should go extinct
Thank you for not spreading your dna. You may not know it but if you just go east a little......there are millions of acres of unused land still to this day.
You can neither create nor destroy a molecule of water. Makes it hard to run out of it.
I been saying this for years they talk about population decline like it’s a bad thing. It’s what we need
The small county I live in in Nova Scotia has lost 3000 people since 2000. We have way more deaths than births....The only thing that keeps many places running is migrant workers. We also have a wildlife problem. Lack of hunting and trapping has deer, bear, and raccoon populations exploding. 80% of local car body repairs is collisions with deer. Deer walk around here like dogs they are so numerous. Beavers, minks, and muskrats are swarming out of the swamps destroying property and livestock. We had to have 4 beavers trapped by the DNR cause the fruit trees were attacked. Bald eagles are so plenty they are killing some of the more native species off. We have so many lobster and halibut that they can't be sold and millions of pounds are on ice for markets. The whole world isn't California.
The whole world isn't the rich English-speaking West either. I understand, in your town population decrease is causing problems but these aren't global problems. Let's say, you won't be able to fish anymore - because the edible fish will be extinct. Let's say, the migrants wouldn't be migrant workers but just desperate migrants fleeing unbearably hot countries with no food, and there would be 20 times more of them. Let's say, we will have a pandemic every 5 years. Those are global problems. Yours can be solved (which shouldn't sound patronizing from me, just hopeful :-)
@@cioccolateriaveneziana Nicely answered.
Nature is pretty effective at dealing with overpopulation - famine, war, and disease work really well.
People can reproduce all they want, when there's no water to be had for the love of money, you'll see pretty swift population decline.
Apologies, I'm shocked that people think governments or those in charge will make difficult choices, "do the right thing" or even know what the right thing is.
"It's all hopeless, just be kind to one another" - John Cleese
Other option is virus by design. It's created havoc so far.
Except after every war there's a population boom. And the countries with the highest birth rate are countries with famine.
@@LLandS18 They have have famine because of the rich nations
War isn't nature
@@PriorityDonk war is human
The earth is 2/3s water, how are we running out of it?