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Ok, I have a serious question on Overpopulation bugging me out. After this video and reading other sources, studies, books ("Empty Planet", Darrell bricker) I am astonished on how Wikipedia treats the subject, leaving no space to the hypothesis it could be just alarmist myth. Now, normally I trust Wikipedia and when I see a huge discrepancy between a theory and what's stated on Wikipedia I see at least a warning light something's possibly wrong. I know wikipedia is not the bible (pun non intended), but do you have any idea on why this discrepancy?
An 'art guy' from a developed country talking bad stuff about immigration? I dont think so. He repeated too many times to himself thats a good thing for people of his country( including young women in public transport).
I am a teenager from Bangladesh. Suddenly hearing my country's relatively unknown name in a well-known channel was wholesome. Keep up the good work....💙💙💙🇧🇩🇧🇩
Bangladesh's 1%/year growth is still a problem, along with the small urbanization 39%. How they took in 800,000 Rohingya without society collapsing? [edit] I guess you didn't; they're still in concentration camps.
@@royalwolf9926 Maybe old-timers still call it East Pakistan? My late grandfather who worked for the World Bank told me it's a hopeless country where typhoon-caused floods wash the people out to see. He said the country needs to be put on stilts. This week, I saw a video of the flood-evacuation shelters they built. People didn't use them initially either because they didn't get the warnings or they didn't have separate male & female bathrooms.
My great-grandmother had 10 children and only 3 survived. My grandmother has 5 children and they all live. My mother has 2 children and they both live. I plan to have 0 children.
That's nice. People should only have children if they feel strongly about it. Those who do not want children should ignore any stupid societal pressure. There are enough people in the world already, right! :)
Finally, we have within our grasp the technology to effect a final solution that will thin the herd, and the means to deliver it with to a scarred population queuing up for "vaccines".
@@baldieman64 what the fuck does this have to do with animation? Or this video? Are you just trying to get your political opinion out there through TH-cam?
I'm so glad someone called crap on over population. Honestly I've had so much trouble dealing with people who just heard about it did no research and spouted it off as fact
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg . Overpopulation is *not* a myth, it is already here, even if the hopeful conjecture that the growth will stop turns out to be correct. (An aside: how annoying that the video presents the conjecture as fact. Kurzgesagt is usually better than this.) But even it it turns out to be true, we are already more people than the world can sustain, to say otherwise is crazy: we're even causing the *climate of the entire world* to change because of it, and causing mass extinction of thousands of species. Most of the most pressing problems of the world can essentially be boiled down to: too many people using too many resources.
@The Noobest Girl It shouldn't be. Overpopulation is still the #1 driving force behind climate change. According to the EPA, In the U.S. roughly 75% of all CO2 emissions are generated by transportation, energy, and industry demands. Although most people enjoy living in a nice house, with electricity, shopping on Amazon for clothes and tech gadgets, such a lifestyle is detrimental to our environment and a strain on our finite resources. Even with the emergence of green technology our energy demands must be drastically reduced. The truth is modern civilization is unsustainable. The way I see it there are 2 paths our species will choose: Either governments will be given more power to regulate markets and stifle climate change at the expense of our natural liberty, so that the many (7 billion or so) across the globe can live in moderation (that is if governments of all countries can agree and follow through with such a plan), or we will undergo some sort of depopulation via vaccination, war, or totalitarian rule in which few (500 million, maybe less) can live moderately lavish lifestyles to ensure sustainability.
@Nick Arjomand Calm down for a second. You're saying climate change is driven by consumption, I agree. Our current levels of consumption (in the United States) are unsustainable if the entire world were to follow suit. Climate change would be catastrophically worse. I have a question for you: What constitutes a reasonable amount of daily consumption and energy usage per individual? If you think that the average American uses a reasonable amount - to drive to work, energy for their home, to put food on the table, relax with entertainment - then you see the problem isn't with consumption, it's with overpopulation. Too many people trying to live a decent life given modern technological advancements is driving climate change. Do you see what I mean? And if you can't determine a reasonable figure for daily consumption and energy usage per individual, should such a number be determined by a government entity, to enforce restrictions on individuals limiting what they can and can't do? This is a very complex issue that can't be responded with "that is a load of bullshit".
@Nick Arjomand I never said overpopulation is the "single cause". Population is not decreasing, it's still increasing, while CO2 emissions are increasing as well to meet the demand. Plus you didn't answer my question. Don't bother wasting your time typing if you have nothing valuable to say.
@Nick Arjomand You went from saying carbon is increasing while population is decreasing. Now you're saying "it's" not increasing by the rate that it used too" - what is "it"? Were you wrong before or are you wrong now? You need to be more specific idiot. You're an example of why depopulation is the solution and not reduced consumption. Return this world to it's natural state and allow natural selection to do its job.
@Nick Arjomand SimpliGene. I've done a bit of research on you, you seem pretty intelligent for your age. Why then is it hard for you to comprehend that in order to combat climate change there exist multiple solutions; reduced consumption, and/or reduced population. The fewer people, the more consumption per capita, the greater quality of life. The more people, the less consumption per capita, the lesser quality of life. Why choose the latter over the former for the continued improvement and progression of our species? Please tell me you understand.
Mecha Martini it makes me happy to see things like that. and stories of world war situations that are turned peaceful. like the one about the soldiers taking a truce and playing football on christmas
@@-Luucy-educate yoursel, you have access to internet so use more Wikipedia and less youtube... Countries like India wich are already totally overpopulated continue and are expecting to continu to have more and more birth. Same thing for Nigeria. It s just an exmple. Most importantly : use your brain. Look at the world and ask yourself if we re going in the right direction. Don't you see the population and most importantly pollution raising at an alarming rate? Don't you know that our economic system is base on constant growth? Do you think it s a sustainable system?
@@bobraimer3662 "Use more Wikipedia and less TH-cam" thanks Mr. Smarty Scaremonger, I'll take your useful advice. Anyway, it seems you didn't really understand the whole video.
@@-Luucy- And it seems you didn t really understand what I said! Don´t worry then... It´s going to be fine according to this video... But then you consciously choose to be beleive in a fairy tale. Have fun in your this Disney world you think you live in.
@@Mayorascat31 Yeah. Well, it's not that bad but it means that there will be way more old people than young people and that will hurt the global economy a lot.
there is no job crisis. i work on IT. i can't be unemployed even if i tried to. jobs are just shifting. not unlike how the horse business went down' when cars became mainstream
Jobs are declining because of robots, but we're getting a lot of new jobs in other areas. I think eventually we'll all have base pay and just live off of what robots produce. But the transition period to that will be difficult.
As a colombian (arguably, an underdeveloped country) i can say this for sure makes a lot of sense. My grandmother for example, had 12 kids!! and that was just normal back then, my father had 5 kids and i am only planning on having 2 kids, maybe one will be adopted. This is why education on these issues are SO IMPORTANT and only now i'm seeing why.
My great-grandmother's parents were terrified of having her. Not because 13 kids was a huge number, but because 13 is unlucky. They got around that by her being one of two twins, so they didn't have 13 kids for long. They had 16 children before they were done. Great-grandma went on to have eight children, grandma had four, and mom had three, of which only me and my littlebrother survived to today. (fuck brain cancer)
I totally agree with you im asian American and I'm planning to have two children only. This video was important to learn about overpopulation because let me tell you this, my parents have 5 kids and it leads them to poor. This is why vietnam needs to have 2 child policy
AngieZu yes and dont forget that there are people who will not have any kids because either they dont want , or selfish, or afraid that life will be hard for them. Its a growing problem in my country France. Most of my friends refuse have children because they want enjoy their own life (egoists) , or afraid that their kid will have to face many difficulties in life...growing gays issue (now we have a lot of gay advertising on TV)..women or men cant have children because of their infertility...
You forgot something there. The 5th Stage. For example Japan or Germany. There are less children born, than people died and so the most people in those "pyramids" are not between 0 and 20, it's about 40 to 70.
The reasons behind Japan's birth rate dropping has more of a cultural influence than anything else. theweek.com/articles/453219/everything-need-know-about-japans-population-crisis
You're talking about an issue nearly no one talks about? the decrease of population growth. Luckily the predictions can't come true at all, we can still surprise the UN and science if we encourage others having more children. So lets start on another problem solving campaign! Step 1: analyze the causes of decreasing population growth Step 2: encourage the people who are causing the decreasing of population to change their life style to hetero sexual, having sex on a way they will grow Step 3: show reasons and give clear arguments Now I've got a question, can you explain how the 5th stage looks like? If yes, give me a picture of the 5th stage which Kurtzgesagt missed
The planet in general needs to have way fewer people in order to sustain us into the future, so let's not get carried away here and start having babies left and right. People have a way of moving themselves around, and Europe will have no trouble attracting people to fill the population gap. Maintaining a focus on education so that skilled workers can move to where the jobs are should be the priority.
As a paranoic person that fears doom by over-population I can't but thank for your optimistic, yet quite realistic forecast and sharing of factual, great data. Keep it going!
Your paranoid about that??? Thats not something even the UN can control directly. Plus the only issue is. The United States consuming far more resources than most nations combined. Countries like Africa and Japan consume far less resources given its population than the US.
It’s not that complicated. The earth gets too populated , people will be killed. It’s that simple. Humans primary instinct is to survive . All of the laws and bullshit that prevent people from killing one another will be tossed aside when it comes to life or death matters.
@@waldox1 i think people generally wasting food and other resources are a bigger problem than prisoners (some among them being innocent and they all are humans, let's not forget that)
"Hopeful" it might be, but totally misleading. Humanity needs another human mouth like it needs a hole in the head. Despite all the murder and mayhem, the population of Afghanistan has increased from less than 4 million 40 years ago to more than 40 million today. The result is vast numbers of them bursting out of the country, many of them with the idea of squatting on us in Britain. Britain is already grossly over-populated yet we are faced with an invasion of illegal Mohammedan criminals, over 40,000 have come across the Channel so far this year (November 2022), it may top 50,000 by the end of the year. We have an impotent government that growls and spits about it yet puts them up in 4 star hotels when they arrive instead of dumping them straight back into France where they have come from. If the French people are stupid enough to let them into France, that is their problem. At the moment Macron laughs at us with every one that makes it to Britain. The population of Nigeria in 1977 was 67 million. It is now about 215 million and increasing at the rate of 4 million per year. Far too many of them see Europe as their answer. There are attempt at a mass invasions armed with ladders sticks and rocks into Melilla, the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast. On 24th June 2021, there was yet another invasion attempt with sections of the border fence vandalised. Official figures suggest that 24 were killed by Moroccan border guards. 2 border guards were killed. The real death toll was probably in excess of 100. The Moroccans don't want them in Morocco either. The answer is birth-rate reduction measures in the breeding hives across the World and sanctions against governments inspired by Mussolini and Hitler running breeding programmes to provide soldiers for their armies. In the last 60 years giraffes have been wiped out in 6 and possibly 7 countries of Africa. Why ? Because increasing human populations in those countries have killed them for meat. The idiots on this video have cited Bangladesh and Iran as countries where birth rate has dropped. In the case of Bangladesh this is true but births are still above 2 children per woman and with the average age of death so low in Bangladesh, they will be hoping that people will stop dying so early. This is why China has run a one child policy (actually about a 1.3 child policy) for the last 50 years.. If births drop to replacement level (2 children per woman) the population will continue to grow as people stop dying. Wise heads in China realised that a 2 child policy would work provided you are prepared to accept mass starvation. They did not find the prospect of mass starvation to be acceptable, hence the 1.3 child policy. Despite the 1.3 child policy, the human population of China has continued to grow a little bit every year. In the last few years, that growth is coming to an end. As the policy began to bite, they have made a number of small relaxations. In 2015 they made another relaxation announcing that where a couple were themselves single children, they could have 3 children. Very few have taken advantage of this offer, many Chinese women having become self-regarding and wish to maintain the swimming pool tummy. The relaxation is possible because Chinese people, living into their 80s, 90s and many living over 100, have now begun to conk out. Unfortunately, many Chinese men are addicted to tobacco but the average age of death for Chinese women is dramatically better than in the USA, so many American women getting fatter and fatter until, as great big blobs, they burst leaving piles of stinking, putrefying fat on the pavement. The assertion concerning Iran is complete rubbish. Large numbers of children are the norm. We can reduce the birth rate taking enforcement action against individuals and regimes that refuse to comply OR we can have a Worldwide deadly epidemic or a nuclear war. I prefer the birth rate reduction answer myself. How about you ?
lol, since time is slower in space than on earth, you'll get any tv series/movies/youtube videoes in less time. Yes you will miss a lot of history, but at least you don't have to wait too long for upcoming instalments if you're able to stream them from space of course
Well not from villages kiddo they are busy watching porn,its like they are in the stage where we were 10 years ago,24/7 porn,though we have a large fugazi engineering population which binge watch these kind of videos. And yeah we have more than 2.5 million engineers.
@@LakesideTrey also what is interesting i read that if aging continue in japan by 2030 japan will be forced to import labor workfare or their economy will collapse due to high demand for pensions and their company's leaving the county for same reason
Arkadiusz Jan Dylewski Survival of the most dominant species my friend, and as of now humans are at the top of the food chain, all we humans really need is insects and farm animals to survive either way if any other species had the same amount of intelligence as us, They would do the same as it is animal instinct to stay at the top.
+Pindo Scum Your English is so bad, the sentence became incomprehensible. And yet you are calling billions of people retards just because you are mad at something the kind man just explained in the video but you still don't understand.
+Pindo Scum no, because the average American is uninformed or misinformed. btw before u flame me, I'm American but not in the average american category. He was also referring to the channel in it's entirety not just this video.
@@theysayisay6 well as humanity advances pollution as a whole will go down (as of recently), and as countries develop further, what I would step 5 in this video, the population starts going down which introduces different problems but not relevant to this conversation. So both human advances in science and population sinking will mean the likelihood of overpopulation based pollution being something to worry about is just not high.
@Tealism to add on to what you said, I feel like stage 5 is something along the lines of a serious problem in Japan, in which there are more elderly than kids, which (as you have said) leads to a decrease in population
@@Dude-cf8hb well my grandparents are from nagoya but I lived in 東京 until the 2011 earthquake then my family moved to the uk and I’ve lived there since but until covid we went on regular holidays there
Statistics prove stereotypes only if you don't know how statistics actually work. For example just by showing the chart at 5:38 I would've been able to predict the conclusion main of this video. The chart clearly shows that over population will steady out yet most people won't know to look for slope as well as concavity.
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@100775597232353073344 Mainly that certain races breed endlessly without purpose as if our own did not go through the same. Many people of my grand parents' generation had over 10 children.
For An Angel no, but habits and inclinations that lead to it are. When the Homo Sapiens invaded Eurasia, it displaced the Neanderthal because it bred in larger numbers. Other same breeds, in the animal kingdom, do it as an evolutionary survival tactic, genes don't die off easily if there are abundant individuals of the same species, or subspecies as is the case.
I’m really hoping the increase in population slows down. There’s way too many around me every time I go out for any reason and that’s leading to me having to stay home more. People are way too social and often unintentionally trigger my PTSD with their lack of ability to read body language. I wish people would learn body language and how to take a hint. Like I moved to get away from you so why are you still talking to me??
@@v7ran Jax Trần Eh, maybe, but I'm not convinced because the way they presented the data doesn't sound that amusing if you're familiar with what an average is. Plus I've simply met a lot of people that seem to believe "average" is a synonym for typical. Just what I think though.
You talk about intolerance but surely this very video is intolerant? It's intolerant of other people existing. And YOU are intolerant. You're intolerant of people in the comments. EVERYBODY is intolerant of groups they don't belong to. Don't pretend you're any different.
+Martis Endrell I guess that means the population magically decreased naturally all of those years because they stopped enforcing a one child policy just last year. Your point makes absolutely no sense, think before you speak.
I want kids just not babies. I plan to adopt a lot of kids(especially older kids since they’ll age out of the system and become homeless if not adopted)
We're definitely in a mass-extinction event caused by humans; the first wave started when we spread across the globe over ten thousand years ago hunting mega-fauna to extinction.
Modern developing countries are doing the routine better than we did, too. They're skipping their world destroying Industrial Revolutions and just jumping right into renewable green energy
I dislike when people view Africa as one entity. For instance, where I am, in South Africa, we have a reasonable 2.34 births per woman, whereas countries like Uganda and the DRC have fertility rates of over 5 per woman. That's frightening. A few South American countries are also above replacement level. Countries tend to have high birth rates when death rates are high, and education levels are low. It's a pity many African countries are being governed so poorly. I see a resource disaster on the horizon.
More people doesn't necessarily mean more progress, if we have lots of uneducated people and hardly any educated people the progress rate will stay the same, and with the school system's decline in doubting we'll be in such good shape. Scientists predict that we won't land on Mars until the 2030s or even later.
You didn't understand what I said. I didn't say we will explore space once we'll reach 12 billion, I said that once we start exploring and colonising space we'll reach 12 billion. Space colonisation first, 12 billion later.
Yooo you guys should’ve kept this animation style, its definitely my favorite out of all of them. Not saying the current style isn’t good, this one is just a little cooler
Overpopulation is only in the large cities. There is so much empty space on earth. Take a train across Russia and see how underpopulated our planet is.
Engelberto Macias Also, and yet we still did not start farming algae and mollusc's on a large scale. Think about all the farm-able organic algae that can be eaten like vegetables. We will use less of the resources, when the energy is all solar, hydro and wind power. Right now we use too much, but technology is helping us to use less every year. Think about all the used stuff we can buy on the Internet for less than half the price :-)
lol those places are unpopulated for a reason and that reason is that they are uninhabitable. Think about it. There's plenty of space in Antarctica and Greenland but you don't see humans trying to live there lol.
Do you remember when he used to draw human characters instead of ducks? God, this video gives me nostalgia, I've learnt so much from this brilliant bunch of atoms. Thank you for making content!
Kurzgesagt at least has over 1 mil subs. Life Noggin still is more underrated, they have yet to reach 1 mil subs. Life Noggin uploads weekly, therefore Life Noggin is a more frequent Kurzgesagt and Blocko is a fast bird.
No we have. It's just that we don't care. Or to put it simply we can't do anything but watch and observe what the higher ups decide to do and memes are the only way to accept this as a fact and lead us away from having an existential crisis to the point where we a start believing that we're doomed and nobody out there can saves us just becuase we were unfortunately born in the wrong family or to put it in better terms. A lesser family. We know we are doomed but we don't want to be reminded. It helps us coup with all the shit going on around us and helps lead us from an immeasurable deppression because in the end our life will have become meaningless. So yeah. We aren't stupid. As a great little girl once said "The meme lords are truly the intellectuals of this world"
Covid19 is barely lethal. I think it introcuded itself to stop carbon emissions in China. And what do you know. China's emissions dropped by over 30% :D
Undeveloped countries have more poverty. Less money correlates with a lower education. Which further extends to a higher birth rate. They need the help of developed countries. However, developed countries waste alot. For example, America wastes 40% of their food. Developed countries outsource their jobs, those jobs that make it possible to live and/or to be a developed country such as farming or mass industry. The major reason is because it's *cheaper*. Thus, we start back at where I began. We have the technology and the means to change the world; however, human society needs to fundamentally change before we can reach a sustainable world.
Developed countries won't go back to being developing countries because they outsource their jobs. Part of the process to become a developed country is to become a service economy. The developing process is: farms and mines -> factories -> service economy. Take China for example. China is on stage 2 right now (factories). China imports rough material from countries on stage 1 (like countries on Latin America and Africa) and exports their products to countries on stage 3 (like America and Europe). China is trying to become a service economy, which is why companies are starting to move their factories to other poorer countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. Manufacturing jobs have been lost in the West since the 60's. Nevertheless, countries in the West have become even more developed and wealthy since then. That's because they became service economies. This is why education is so important, because you need educated workers to work on service jobs. I study economics by the way.
Rick Apocalypse It would be very unlikely for a developed country to undevelop itself. What would happen if all countries reach stage 3? Do you think stage 1 countries need to climb up the economic ladder towards wealth by becoming a service economy? I'm just saying in my above comment that devloped countries have mutual benefits with developing countries; however, this bond limits their growth if they don't change. Who will pay for the free lunch? (As someone has to pay)
Brian Sanchez There are no free lunches, surly you don't suggest that. And developing countries are the ones that benefit the most from interactions with developed countries. That's why most developing countries have annual growths of ~10% while most developed countries only grow at about ~1%. And well developed countries can do things like farming and factory production, but it usually isn't worth it, because service jobs are more productive. Why have 3 factory workers and 7 farmers, when 1 farmer, 1 factory worker an 8 engineers and produce so much more. There are exceptions, of course, like Venezuela, which is miserable due to bad governance, or Sweden which is wildly successful because of high innovation and great infrastructure.
Well, when 10% of people inside your country become educated and get better paying jobs, this also benefits the other 90%. Because the supply of uneducated workers gets smaller and this values their labor. The same thing happens with countries. When one country moves up the ladder, the other countries below it benefit. So if all countries but India, for example, become service economies, India could potentially become a developed country just by selling rough material (farms and mines) to the other countries, because everyone else would be forced to buy from them. When you hit stage 3, there is only one thing left to grow your productivity: technology. But as technology advances and robots keep replacing humans in factories (and in some service jobs), factories will increasingly become a thing of the past. And more more countries will be forced to try to move to stage 3. Will may very well see in 50 years the same percentage of people who work in farms today also be the same percentage who work in factories. But even if this doesn't grow the economy of countries in stage 3, it would still benefit them with lower prices. People are taking for granted the low prices they have today on imported manufactured goods from poor countries and backpedaling on globalization. They will see the consequences of protectionism once they start seeing the increase in prices.
hamstsorkxxor Well of course they have higher growth rates. There's more to grow and because we have a head start and share that with them so that speeds it up immensely. (I don't actually mean sharing international politics is a little more complicated)
They are actually wrong, there is a cycle in population which we can observe today. Japan reached the 5th state and now it is going back to 3rd one, because growth of the population is a fact.
More highly educated people doesn't mean better job, it will just rise the standard for entry-level jobs. I came from a small country where 95% of the population has Bachelor's degree, and you can't get any job without getting a 4-year degree. You literally have to go through university to get a job in McDonald's, and your grade can't be bad either since there are too many people with good grades.
I've heard much the same as Sean's Piano from a friend who moved to America from Romania. She says the average citizen there has between 2 and 3 degrees, yet the number of quality jobs doesn't grow proportionately.
The one and only video of Kurzgesagt so far that I struggle to believe in the content of. Middle East and India still make me feel like this overbreeding will never end.
I am from India , currently the most populated nation in the planet .people here are ignorant about population explosion . needless to say life is hell here. where ever you go there are people here It feels like even if I kill myself will be difficult to find soil to bury my body .Every one knows one day population growth will go down . but question is when? not in our life for sure . I am certain by then high population rate would have caused irreparable damage to earth. For some reason dinosaurs got wiped , some say reason is it got multiplied beyond earth's capacity may be that will repeat even before human kind reaches its peak..
You are missing hell lot of points . China ended one child policy only when they achieved their targets like raising national living standards , economy and infrastructure . Now average chinese is economically well off and over 97% literate all due to one child policy .Now there is no way a literate chinese going back to the 70's state like producing more than 2 children so they withdraw this one child policy. India is not even comparable where today poor people always produce more children beyond their capacity. and constantly add more illiterate and poor in to the nation . this cycle continues without any stop . Understand this China was poorer than India in the 70's they lifted huge number of people out of poverty in short span of time all with this birth control . now their economy is over 3 times larger than india . India's current population level is way above the saturation level even if India maintains TFR at replacement level for many years it wont create a better livable atmosphere for the majority masses . It needs to be at 600-700 million people for optimal use of natural resources dont forget India is only 1/3 of china in land area.
Then I would explain Thanos how he was wrong. As this video explained. Just because his people messed that turnaround up, does not mean everyone will. Of course the normal Marvel Storyline is that the wants to kill "half the Universe" to get a date with Lady Death. Wich oddly makes a whole lot more sense then his "bring the universe into Balance" thing from the MCU.
@@micahhenley589 Hullo! Issa me, Jesus. You did an ok job, but you also used David's toothbrush to clean the toilet, so spend some time in purgatory to make up for that. Yes John, I know about the toothbrush...
@@eyesinthesky7102 And would only make things worse, (ignoring the fact that he could just make double or infinite resources), supply chains are the reasons why we can eat, and disrupting those supply chains would be much more disastrous.
@@josephpayne113 it would be bad initially, but we would be able to pick back up on everything for the capacity of the people we have. The 1970s weren’t an unlivable supply chain hell. We’d simply build back up, requiring less of a supply chain with our less population, and be back where we are at full capacity in today’s time soon enough.
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Hey this was an hour ago!
An this video was 3 years ago!
Goobyster ohhh I get it now they’re commenting on all of their videos no matter how old
Umm how do you get a .2 children lol 😂 or any Decimal/ faction
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Ok, I have a serious question on Overpopulation bugging me out. After this video and reading other sources, studies, books ("Empty Planet", Darrell bricker) I am astonished on how Wikipedia treats the subject, leaving no space to the hypothesis it could be just alarmist myth.
Now, normally I trust Wikipedia and when I see a huge discrepancy between a theory and what's stated on Wikipedia I see at least a warning light something's possibly wrong.
I know wikipedia is not the bible (pun non intended), but do you have any idea on why this discrepancy?
Wait what? An optimistic Kurzgesagt video?
when population shrinks, our industries will become unsustainable, and ai will need to do most of the work. then...
@@amongus-yw6uw im a bit messed up arent i?
@@musAKulture Not really, because automatisation grows so we'll need less people to work. It'll be all machines.
An 'art guy' from a developed country talking bad stuff about immigration? I dont think so. He repeated too many times to himself thats a good thing for people of his country( including young women in public transport).
They probably put it together before Trump got elected.
and I'm still single
You're not the only one lol
Star MC Sex is the easy part, its keeping the other person around thats...impossible. =/
+Star MC tired of being fat and ugly? Just be ugly by working out💪
mah man
Look at you already working on stabilizing the birth rate!
Imagine you made 15 children, expecting 5 to reach adulthood, then somebody invents medicine against the plague o.O
Just kill Billy
That is indeed in my favour
My grandmother had 13 children, they all survived to adulthood.
@@sirMarbas My grandmother had 11 but one died after birth and one went by suicide.
@@sirMarbas She must've been like: *UH OOOOOOOOH*
I am a teenager from Bangladesh. Suddenly hearing my country's relatively unknown name in a well-known channel was wholesome. Keep up the good work....💙💙💙🇧🇩🇧🇩
Kurzgesagt really loves your country. They mentioned its progress in detail in at least 3 videos!
Bangladesh's 1%/year growth is still a problem, along with the small urbanization 39%. How they took in 800,000 Rohingya without society collapsing? [edit] I guess you didn't; they're still in concentration camps.
Bangladesh has 170 million people who the fuck is your country unknown?
@@royalwolf9926 Maybe old-timers still call it East Pakistan? My late grandfather who worked for the World Bank told me it's a hopeless country where typhoon-caused floods wash the people out to see. He said the country needs to be put on stilts. This week, I saw a video of the flood-evacuation shelters they built. People didn't use them initially either because they didn't get the warnings or they didn't have separate male & female bathrooms.
Nice to see another fellow Bangladeshi on this channel instead of some opu bhai tiktok videos
This Channel makes you feel everything is going to be alright , they make everything sound better
It’s sugarcoating it.....
Uh...you need to watch some of their other videos. This is one of the few positive ones, lol.
@@yoloswagtron6920 true, most of them end in destruction lmao
They will say the truth either way that's why I respect them.
For that god bless them, suffering is already enough to our world for centurys.
Don’t forget we can also adopt! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and all that.
reduce children that's smart but reuse and recycle?? kids aren't plastic what u mean
It’s a joke, sweet pea. Take it as one.
hahahahahha, good one!
This is one of the funniest comments I’ve seen this week
😂👏
My great-grandmother had 10 children and only 3 survived. My grandmother has 5 children and they all live. My mother has 2 children and they both live. I plan to have 0 children.
That's nice. People should only have children if they feel strongly about it. Those who do not want children should ignore any stupid societal pressure. There are enough people in the world already, right! :)
Jill Peters yes
Good guy!
I wish the other people think like us:'(
@@BeLoud13 yeah the gouverments need to do the same (chinna one child )policy
@@astrogaming2379 even if not one, 2 atleast
0:36 That's one savage grandma.
😂👍
You can't blame her, she lived longer than all of them there
savageeee
👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻🔪🔪🔪🔪
survival of the fittest
It's weird seeing people. I prefer all birds! I'm scared and confused now,
Kylem Lol
Kylem yeah they work for the bourgeoisie
We are talking about humans not fricking birds 🐦
Kek 🤦♂️
Someone’s obviously not a regular viewer…
and the art style is so different now im not used to this😭
How tf is there 7.3 billion people inthe world but I still have no friends
Kaitlyn Kay 7.2 billion haven't even seen you.
Since you stay inside watching anime all day.
Oatmeal I'd rather watch anime than be obsessed with ponies.
Kaitlyn Kay anime ya
Michael LDN how about neither and actually be a decent human being HTH GL
Respect for the animators who worked hunders's of hours for this video
People don't get it how hard and bone bending making animation is
You are true
Finally, we have within our grasp the technology to effect a final solution that will thin the herd, and the means to deliver it with to a scarred population queuing up for "vaccines".
@@baldieman64 what the fuck does this have to do with animation? Or this video? Are you just trying to get your political opinion out there through TH-cam?
@Raki chamu how to make it?
I just studied the demographic transition, this is so helpful. I love your videos, keep up the good work.
This video is so old that Kurzgesagt actually animated humans instead of birds
They're evolving
It's birbs not birds
there are birbs
Who asked if they where birbs?
@@melvinklark4088 Everyone
The animations are so smooth and satisfying keep it up
60hz is great
Viral Fails Yeah. This animation has a little different style than other videos(morr cartoony). Can't say I mind.
I'm so glad someone called crap on over population. Honestly I've had so much trouble dealing with people who just heard about it did no research and spouted it off as fact
FellowGamers Same
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg . Overpopulation is *not* a myth, it is already here, even if the hopeful conjecture that the growth will stop turns out to be correct. (An aside: how annoying that the video presents the conjecture as fact. Kurzgesagt is usually better than this.) But even it it turns out to be true, we are already more people than the world can sustain, to say otherwise is crazy: we're even causing the *climate of the entire world* to change because of it, and causing mass extinction of thousands of species. Most of the most pressing problems of the world can essentially be boiled down to: too many people using too many resources.
in fat, some time ago national geographic said all 6(past) billion of people can be put in LA valley shoulder to shoulder
Exactly. I've been saying this to people for so flipping long i'm glad Kurzgesagt made a video on it. Damn rumors lol.
Artyom Silaev okay...but it's not like that actually means anything
For someone who dont want childrens.. This argument of overpopulation will be my strongest.
YOU BET, sir !
"if you dont have children then the chance of someoen inventing important tihng will be lower " - 🤓🤓🤡🤡
Well that was unusually optimistic!
@The Noobest Girl It shouldn't be. Overpopulation is still the #1 driving force behind climate change. According to the EPA, In the U.S. roughly 75% of all CO2 emissions are generated by transportation, energy, and industry demands. Although most people enjoy living in a nice house, with electricity, shopping on Amazon for clothes and tech gadgets, such a lifestyle is detrimental to our environment and a strain on our finite resources. Even with the emergence of green technology our energy demands must be drastically reduced. The truth is modern civilization is unsustainable. The way I see it there are 2 paths our species will choose: Either governments will be given more power to regulate markets and stifle climate change at the expense of our natural liberty, so that the many (7 billion or so) across the globe can live in moderation (that is if governments of all countries can agree and follow through with such a plan), or we will undergo some sort of depopulation via vaccination, war, or totalitarian rule in which few (500 million, maybe less) can live moderately lavish lifestyles to ensure sustainability.
@Nick Arjomand Calm down for a second. You're saying climate change is driven by consumption, I agree. Our current levels of consumption (in the United States) are unsustainable if the entire world were to follow suit. Climate change would be catastrophically worse.
I have a question for you: What constitutes a reasonable amount of daily consumption and energy usage per individual? If you think that the average American uses a reasonable amount - to drive to work, energy for their home, to put food on the table, relax with entertainment - then you see the problem isn't with consumption, it's with overpopulation. Too many people trying to live a decent life given modern technological advancements is driving climate change. Do you see what I mean?
And if you can't determine a reasonable figure for daily consumption and energy usage per individual, should such a number be determined by a government entity, to enforce restrictions on individuals limiting what they can and can't do? This is a very complex issue that can't be responded with "that is a load of bullshit".
@Nick Arjomand I never said overpopulation is the "single cause". Population is not decreasing, it's still increasing, while CO2 emissions are increasing as well to meet the demand. Plus you didn't answer my question. Don't bother wasting your time typing if you have nothing valuable to say.
@Nick Arjomand You went from saying carbon is increasing while population is decreasing. Now you're saying "it's" not increasing by the rate that it used too" - what is "it"? Were you wrong before or are you wrong now? You need to be more specific idiot. You're an example of why depopulation is the solution and not reduced consumption. Return this world to it's natural state and allow natural selection to do its job.
@Nick Arjomand SimpliGene. I've done a bit of research on you, you seem pretty intelligent for your age. Why then is it hard for you to comprehend that in order to combat climate change there exist multiple solutions; reduced consumption, and/or reduced population. The fewer people, the more consumption per capita, the greater quality of life. The more people, the less consumption per capita, the lesser quality of life. Why choose the latter over the former for the continued improvement and progression of our species? Please tell me you understand.
Weird for a Bangladeshi like me who just realized his country got mentioned in this video for something good .
Yeah, I know how it feels.
Ayyyyy Bangladeshis unite
Mecha Martini it makes me happy to see things like that. and stories of world war situations that are turned peaceful. like the one about the soldiers taking a truce and playing football on christmas
Not really good or bad
at least you guys poo in the loo unlike india
this video cleared up an ongoing panic i have had my entire life thank you
Then you re incredibly naive.
@@bobraimer3662 because?
@@-Luucy-educate yoursel, you have access to internet so use more Wikipedia and less youtube... Countries like India wich are already totally overpopulated continue and are expecting to continu to have more and more birth. Same thing for Nigeria. It s just an exmple.
Most importantly : use your brain. Look at the world and ask yourself if we re going in the right direction.
Don't you see the population and most importantly pollution raising at an alarming rate?
Don't you know that our economic system is base on constant growth? Do you think it s a sustainable system?
@@bobraimer3662 "Use more Wikipedia and less TH-cam" thanks Mr. Smarty Scaremonger, I'll take your useful advice. Anyway, it seems you didn't really understand the whole video.
@@-Luucy- And it seems you didn t really understand what I said!
Don´t worry then... It´s going to be fine according to this video... But then you
consciously choose to be beleive in a fairy tale. Have fun in your this Disney world you think you live in.
Update its 8.1 billion now
Rip earth
@@Mayorascat31Update birth rates are slowing down so much that there will be no over population problem soon, but an underpopulation problem.
@@Vessaharja123 You sure bro?
@@Mayorascat31 Yeah. Well, it's not that bad but it means that there will be way more old people than young people and that will hurt the global economy a lot.
I feel like there's an overpopulation crisis everytime i try getting on a subway
why would you try getting on top of a Subway restaurant
Subways; either you get a good sandwich, or a terrible to trip!
There is also a stage 5, in which in countries like Germany there are more deaths than births annually.
Flin Tin former Eastern Bloc nations
Flin Tin +Japan
+ Denmark
Das Staubkorn this cancerous shit is everywhere in the comments I feel your pain
This guy has some bots and/or brainwashed cult members blindly liking everything he says. It's kinda disgusting tbh
More educated people = future of jobs?
A video on the job crysis would be interesting
Up
Federico Trenton CPG grey has a good video on that topic it's called "humans need not apply "
see human no need to apply video
if you want get depressed
there is no job crisis. i work on IT. i can't be unemployed even if i tried to.
jobs are just shifting. not unlike how the horse business went down' when cars became mainstream
Jobs are declining because of robots, but we're getting a lot of new jobs in other areas.
I think eventually we'll all have base pay and just live off of what robots produce. But the transition period to that will be difficult.
I love how he says we are all going to die then says that everything is okay because of some wierd reason
As a colombian (arguably, an underdeveloped country) i can say this for sure makes a lot of sense. My grandmother for example, had 12 kids!! and that was just normal back then, my father had 5 kids and i am only planning on having 2 kids, maybe one will be adopted. This is why education on these issues are SO IMPORTANT and only now i'm seeing why.
My great-grandmother's parents were terrified of having her. Not because 13 kids was a huge number, but because 13 is unlucky. They got around that by her being one of two twins, so they didn't have 13 kids for long. They had 16 children before they were done.
Great-grandma went on to have eight children, grandma had four, and mom had three, of which only me and my littlebrother survived to today. (fuck brain cancer)
I totally agree with you im asian American and I'm planning to have two children only. This video was important to learn about overpopulation because let me tell you this, my parents have 5 kids and it leads them to poor. This is why vietnam needs to have 2 child policy
AngieZu btw I was born in USA
I'm mexican-bolivian, my grandparents had 10 children and magically for 20th century latin american only one of them died
AngieZu yes and dont forget that there are people who will not have any kids because either they dont want , or selfish, or afraid that life will be hard for them. Its a growing problem in my country France. Most of my friends refuse have children because they want enjoy their own life (egoists) , or afraid that their kid will have to face many difficulties in life...growing gays issue (now we have a lot of gay advertising on TV)..women or men cant have children because of their infertility...
whoa. this is a new style
Pikapetey Animations
Not sure i like it as much thougth.
Pikapetey Animations I liked the old one more tho
nah,they just forgot to erase the outline,they'll probably repost it
Yeah the outlines look pretty bad imo
Yeah, it seems less simplistic, and definitely looks less geometric shape-based. I like it :)
"the population will balance out"
*Thanos entered the chat*
Perfectly balanced
as all things should be
Sure... war will keep growing.
Oh hi there
Dan Chiyome the number of serious conflicts on earth has actually been trending down. I wouldn’t think more people alone would change that
Boiiiiiiiiiii
This explains almost all our problems.
Yep my freind ! Minus - 90 % of population = MINUS 90 Percent probs SOLVED ! ! !
You forgot something there. The 5th Stage. For example Japan or Germany. There are less children born, than people died and so the most people in those "pyramids" are not between 0 and 20, it's about 40 to 70.
The reasons behind Japan's birth rate dropping has more of a cultural influence than anything else.
theweek.com/articles/453219/everything-need-know-about-japans-population-crisis
don't worry, with all those economic immigrants coming in, there would be no more population decline in germany.
You're talking about an issue nearly no one talks about? the decrease of population growth. Luckily the predictions can't come true at all, we can still surprise the UN and science if we encourage others having more children. So lets start on another problem solving campaign!
Step 1: analyze the causes of decreasing population growth
Step 2: encourage the people who are causing the decreasing of population to change their life style to hetero sexual, having sex on a way they will grow
Step 3: show reasons and give clear arguments
Now I've got a question, can you explain how the 5th stage looks like? If yes, give me a picture of the 5th stage which Kurtzgesagt missed
Olliver Tjon Soei Len The refugee crisis
The planet in general needs to have way fewer people in order to sustain us into the future, so let's not get carried away here and start having babies left and right. People have a way of moving themselves around, and Europe will have no trouble attracting people to fill the population gap. Maintaining a focus on education so that skilled workers can move to where the jobs are should be the priority.
As a paranoic person that fears doom by over-population I can't but thank for your optimistic, yet quite realistic forecast and sharing of factual, great data. Keep it going!
Luis Arturo Sánchez Gutiérrez you can fit everyone in the world in Texas . It’s not really a matter of space but resource distribution
Your paranoid about that??? Thats not something even the UN can control directly. Plus the only issue is. The United States consuming far more resources than most nations combined. Countries like Africa and Japan consume far less resources given its population than the US.
It’s not that complicated. The earth gets too populated , people will be killed. It’s that simple. Humans primary instinct is to survive . All of the laws and bullshit that prevent people from killing one another will be tossed aside when it comes to life or death matters.
I think prison inmates would be a good place to start. We waste lots of resources on those good for nothing scum bags.
@@waldox1 i think people generally wasting food and other resources are a bigger problem than prisoners (some among them being innocent and they all are humans, let's not forget that)
I would love to have 2.5 kids someday!
me too
or as my face dictates, have none
Divyansh geez, why can't people just be happy for you and your 2.5 kids? they just keep telling you to change your life. I can't.
its actually 2.1 now.
What about having 0.8 kids i heard it is pretty exotic!
Very insightful, never heard of this POV on population growth before. Certainly more hopeful then we're used to hearing.
"Hopeful" it might be, but totally misleading. Humanity needs another human mouth like it needs a hole in the head. Despite all the murder and mayhem, the population of Afghanistan has increased from less than 4 million 40 years ago to more than 40 million today. The result is vast numbers of them bursting out of the country, many of them with the idea of squatting on us in Britain. Britain is already grossly over-populated yet we are faced with an invasion of illegal Mohammedan criminals, over 40,000 have come across the Channel so far this year (November 2022), it may top 50,000 by the end of the year. We have an impotent government that growls and spits about it yet puts them up in 4 star hotels when they arrive instead of dumping them straight back into France where they have come from. If the French people are stupid enough to let them into France, that is their problem. At the moment Macron laughs at us with every one that makes it to Britain. The population of Nigeria in 1977 was 67 million. It is now about 215 million and increasing at the rate of 4 million per year. Far too many of them see Europe as their answer. There are attempt at a mass invasions armed with ladders sticks and rocks into Melilla, the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast. On 24th June 2021, there was yet another invasion attempt with sections of the border fence vandalised. Official figures suggest that 24 were killed by Moroccan border guards. 2 border guards were killed. The real death toll was probably in excess of 100. The Moroccans don't want them in Morocco either.
The answer is birth-rate reduction measures in the breeding hives across the World and sanctions against governments inspired by Mussolini and Hitler running breeding programmes to provide soldiers for their armies.
In the last 60 years giraffes have been wiped out in 6 and possibly 7 countries of Africa. Why ? Because increasing human populations in those countries have killed them for meat. The idiots on this video have cited Bangladesh and Iran as countries where birth rate has dropped. In the case of Bangladesh this is true but births are still above 2 children per woman and with the average age of death so low in Bangladesh, they will be hoping that people will stop dying so early. This is why China has run a one child policy (actually about a 1.3 child policy) for the last 50 years.. If births drop to replacement level (2 children per woman) the population will continue to grow as people stop dying. Wise heads in China realised that a 2 child policy would work provided you are prepared to accept mass starvation. They did not find the prospect of mass starvation to be acceptable, hence the 1.3 child policy. Despite the 1.3 child policy, the human population of China has continued to grow a little bit every year. In the last few years, that growth is coming to an end. As the policy began to bite, they have made a number of small relaxations. In 2015 they made another relaxation announcing that where a couple were themselves single children, they could have 3 children. Very few have taken advantage of this offer, many Chinese women having become self-regarding and wish to maintain the swimming pool tummy. The relaxation is possible because Chinese people, living into their 80s, 90s and many living over 100, have now begun to conk out. Unfortunately, many Chinese men are addicted to tobacco but the average age of death for Chinese women is dramatically better than in the USA, so many American women getting fatter and fatter until, as great big blobs, they burst leaving piles of stinking, putrefying fat on the pavement. The assertion concerning Iran is complete rubbish. Large numbers of children are the norm.
We can reduce the birth rate taking enforcement action against individuals and regimes that refuse to comply OR we can have a Worldwide deadly epidemic or a nuclear war. I prefer the birth rate reduction answer myself. How about you ?
Oh, my god! The animation is so pretty!
I can do it
Buildpucipuci02 stupid moron your probably 12
Yes, in a nutshell.
Čau, latvieti!
The video speaks about the end of humanity, and ur focusing on the animation. You'd make a good politician.
Man, the next time humanity sends out a time capsule into space they should include a link to this channel
Lone Lizard Would the internet still exist by the time someone discovers it?
lol, since time is slower in space than on earth, you'll get any tv series/movies/youtube videoes in less time.
Yes you will miss a lot of history, but at least you don't have to wait too long for upcoming instalments
if you're able to stream them from space of course
I read that in a jacksepticeye voice due to your profile picture.
Neo me too lol
Fr
Everyone in the comments section is suddenly an expert in population statistics
Yes! I'll have you know that Earth has less than 5000 people in it! Earth, Texas, that is...
Slithery There's only seven million...
no theres only 7 ppl in the world
Pocketenderman MCPE well you must be some kind of genius.
TH-cam User but how can there be 25 million if there are only 7 million people on the planet?
weird.
Watching this from Bangladesh🇧🇩.world's most densely populated country.
Where you experience human jam instead of traffic jam everywhere.
Anime is a good birth control. Look at Japan.
"Anime is trash" activated
@@perturabo149 I'm triggered
Lol your right
@Viscot
but germany is importing "goldpeaces" and "doctors" to fix there problem
Japanese are too busy working to have sex
FYI - these 2.5 MILLION views are from a small village in India alone.
Ditto, But I was originally going to do this but TH-cam's comments suck now.
@ *manualLaborer* So is that clickfarm-esque like bar.
+Deez Nuts - yeah, that number is preemptive based on their reproductive rate, give it like another day...
Well not from villages kiddo they are busy watching porn,its like they are in the stage where we were 10 years ago,24/7 porn,though we have a large fugazi engineering population which binge watch these kind of videos.
And yeah we have more than 2.5 million engineers.
Deez Nuts this comment. Deserves something xD
Perfectly balanced as all things should be.
A Primer fan :D
We don't need you anymore Thanos we will be fine on our own 😉👍
Aw,hi! Listen,uhm,I might have a job for you.Can't pay much,but I think you'll see my point.
@cameron ward you mean all bad people it will be better that way
Thanos •
Why did you YEET Gamora off a cliff?
I love learning when it comes to kurzgesagt.. Lots of support and love from Bangladesh
Media:Overpopulation is becoming a problem
**Japan has entered the chat**
Their rapid aging population has lead to some economic issues, albeit not as extreme as the overpopulation apocalypse the media often portrays.
LakesideTrey exactly.
Russia has entered the chat aswell
@@LakesideTrey also what is interesting i read that if aging continue in japan by 2030 japan will be forced to import labor workfare or their economy will collapse due to high demand for pensions and their company's leaving the county for same reason
dead star I know if you had seen the discussion above.thx for the reminder
I love this channel so much. It's so underrated though
Kaino They have over 3 million subscribers, that is not underrated.
what i'm saying is that they should have 13 millions subs
True
gets 1k+ views in under a minute, "underrated"
duded B lol is salty
Average children in a family
2.5
Ok Jimmy
Time to saw you in half
lmao
I guess a baby is considered a half child lmao
Lmao
2.5 denotes the chances of having 2 or 3 children
OH HELL NO!
8 billion people and counting this is crazy with depleting resources
Wrong. This is a resource mismanagement issue.
I'd argue we are underpopulated
You went from making vids Monthly to making vids weekly. What a great improvement.
123 guy The sequel its inconsistent. don't expect one next week. depends on the length of the video too. like the one before wasn't so long.
Still,it's the quality that is important,and even that is getting better!
Elias Bouhou
the 12th billion human won't be born at all? I wounder how the 11,999,999,999th person felt about that.
no he/she just has to wait till someone died
While the 13th billion is shaking his head.
Wow, I didn't even know that I made this comment and it's getting likes l. Thanks guys
Vishal Farma it's funny that's why😂😂
Arkadiusz Jan Dylewski Survival of the most dominant species my friend, and as of now humans are at the top of the food chain, all we humans really need is insects and farm animals to survive either way if any other species had the same amount of intelligence as us, They would do the same as it is animal instinct to stay at the top.
We had to watch this in Geography once. This is one of the reasons why I love my Geography class.
FakeRoadMan lucky
Bastards
hmmm…..useful, i suppose.
What does this have to do with geography
Protato_Life this is about demography, which is part of geography
If only they knew now…
That 12th billion human is gonna have a laugh at the U.N. from Mars
Its supposed to mean 12 billion people on the Earth, it doesn't count 12 billion humans living in the universe in general.
Its supposed to be a joke ya goof
U.N Owen Was Mars?
ZackRToler 12 billionth.
Again. Joke
This channel should be made compulsory to be watched for Americans.
no, we are the retards giving Bill Gates fixes for their malaria.
+Pindo Scum Your English is so bad, the sentence became incomprehensible. And yet you are calling billions of people retards just because you are mad at something the kind man just explained in the video but you still don't understand.
+Pindo Scum no, because the average American is uninformed or misinformed. btw before u flame me, I'm American but not in the average american category. He was also referring to the channel in it's entirety not just this video.
Yeah, because compulsory readings were soooo effective in school. And believe me, there are just as many retards here in Europe.
Rafał Sobczyk this mans a savage
This was a lovely video. But I'm still a bit concerned about overpopulation in a context of pollution, over-consumption and waste.
@@theysayisay6 well as humanity advances pollution as a whole will go down (as of recently), and as countries develop further, what I would step 5 in this video, the population starts going down which introduces different problems but not relevant to this conversation. So both human advances in science and population sinking will mean the likelihood of overpopulation based pollution being something to worry about is just not high.
@Tealism to add on to what you said, I feel like stage 5 is something along the lines of a serious problem in Japan, in which there are more elderly than kids, which (as you have said) leads to a decrease in population
@@Dude-cf8hb well yes I am aware of that, I was born in japan
@@Gleifel Which part?
@@Dude-cf8hb well my grandparents are from nagoya but I lived in 東京 until the 2011 earthquake then my family moved to the uk and I’ve lived there since but until covid we went on regular holidays there
thanos:fine,I'll do it myself.
Kurzgesagt, destroying racist stereotypes with statistics.
probably the best way to summarize the channel
Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson Specifically what stereotype did he destroy, and how was it racist?
Statistics prove stereotypes only if you don't know how statistics actually work.
For example just by showing the chart at 5:38 I would've been able to predict the conclusion main of this video. The chart clearly shows that over population will steady out yet most people won't know to look for slope as well as concavity.
@100775597232353073344 Mainly that certain races breed endlessly without purpose as if our own did not go through the same. Many people of my grand parents' generation had over 10 children.
since 2013
I am going to die alone and have zero children. doing my part in fighting the war on overpopulation!
ziljin that is counter-evolutionary. Only breeding organisms pass on developing features.
Jon De Oliveira guess that means I'm actually fighting against humanity then.
Overpopulation is not hereditary.
For An Angel no, but habits and inclinations that lead to it are. When the Homo Sapiens invaded Eurasia, it displaced the Neanderthal because it bred in larger numbers. Other same breeds, in the animal kingdom, do it as an evolutionary survival tactic, genes don't die off easily if there are abundant individuals of the same species, or subspecies as is the case.
Jon De Oliveira
So what are you saying? That if people stop having kids, that's not going to keep the population down?
If I won the lottery I'd fund a kurzgesagt tv show!!!!
Ivory Peteet id build a huge cement compound with Gatling turrets and armoured trucks :O
WuFFY Oupol/War! What a great investment!!!!!!
Ivory Peteet Id build a resevoir for unpolluted drinking water.
Why would you want a networking polluting this
Ivory Peteet I would to
Just wanting to appreciate the editor of this video!!! Superb👌👌Amazeballs!!!🤩🤩🤩
Education and condoms for everybody!!!
Slim Dave wait wat
And Russia for everybo...oh...i mean yea education and condoms for everybody
What are those?
wish I could have told that your parents.
+Multiroester Are you aware that cyberbullying is illegal?
The art in this video doesn't feel like Kurgesagt
Fifi Phoebe ikr but i really don't care as long as the quality stays the same
Fifi Phoebe, it was probably the other collab person's artwork or staff that does their artwork
Fifi Phoebe They added outlines. Thats the main difference.
Fifi Phoebe shut the fuck up
Fifi Phoebe I dont care Im here for my information nothing else 😐😕
My english is not that good sorry 😅😅
Anyone else drop what they're doing when Kurzgesagt uploads a video?
guilty
Spicy arsehole turd ME.
Spicy arsehole turd ][ Yes, all of my news subscriptions were talking about Trump. So I needed to see this video for my daily ray of hope.
i got caught.
Haha same here! :D
I’m really hoping the increase in population slows down. There’s way too many around me every time I go out for any reason and that’s leading to me having to stay home more. People are way too social and often unintentionally trigger my PTSD with their lack of ability to read body language. I wish people would learn body language and how to take a hint. Like I moved to get away from you so why are you still talking to me??
kurzgesagt: says an average of 2.5 kids
everyone: HaLf A cHIlD gUYs
I really can't believe how many people don't understand what an average is.
B05SxBrennan they obviously do know what it means you burnt piece of celery.
They just think it’s funny how kurzgesagt displayed that data
@@v7ran Jax Trần Eh, maybe, but I'm not convinced because the way they presented the data doesn't sound that amusing if you're familiar with what an average is. Plus I've simply met a lot of people that seem to believe "average" is a synonym for typical. Just what I think though.
The amount of people that have made this stupid joke is appalling, fucking sheep who think they're funny
@@B05SxBrennan
Yep 2.5 means like 50% have 2 50% have 3,simple but most viewers are Logangsters,and under 10
These videos are very interesting, but by God, the comments section is toxic.
Dispute is toxicity?
When it is fuelled by intolerance and anger, yeah.
agreed, its sad how many edgy teenagers there are here
WanderingRandomer
Sometimes anger is necessary. Sometimes perceived intolerance is intolerance of the witness.
You talk about intolerance but surely this very video is intolerant? It's intolerant of other people existing.
And YOU are intolerant. You're intolerant of people in the comments.
EVERYBODY is intolerant of groups they don't belong to. Don't pretend you're any different.
I like how china was included on the birth rate chart as "natural" change... hehe
what
you could say ayy lmao
One child policy completely natural comrade.
They got rid of their one child policy about a year ago.
+Martis Endrell I guess that means the population magically decreased naturally all of those years because they stopped enforcing a one child policy just last year. Your point makes absolutely no sense, think before you speak.
and now 8.0 billion
Thanos: *INTERESTING*
Corona: *INTERESTING INDEED*
Lol
I want kids just not babies. I plan to adopt a lot of kids(especially older kids since they’ll age out of the system and become homeless if not adopted)
I hope you do that. That’s my plan too. Good luck
You are a good human being . ThankYou
Edit: and yeah best of luck
@Beatles . bruh shut up. Kids in the system deserve a chance at life. Fuck your “breeding”.
@Oh Shanana , Aww that’s so sweet of you my plan is to give birth to one child and adopt one but yeah will help whoever will be in need 🖤
@Beatles . what? Adoption from foster care is not taking their kids from their parents?…
*when there are 7.3 billion people in the world and you're lonely af* ;-;
lets be frinds then. :D im lonely to!
7.4....
Your username is a bit extreme, dude.
I'll be friends with you. Where are you from? I'm from NY
Melissa Vitela :p that's me
I feel bad for the other species on earth.
We're definitely in a mass-extinction event caused by humans; the first wave started when we spread across the globe over ten thousand years ago hunting mega-fauna to extinction.
Modern developing countries are doing the routine better than we did, too. They're skipping their world destroying Industrial Revolutions and just jumping right into renewable green energy
leftyfourguns What countries are doing that currently?
leftyfourguns well someone had to do it first
leftyfourguns The old adage .... learn from peoples mistakes
India and China
Prismic James Costa Rica, among others.
As a Master's in Demography student you cannot believe how excited I am to have found this 😍😍😍
This is meant for normal people. As a Master's in Demography student this should be far below your level.
Haha I'm not learning anything new here. It's just nice to see the concepts I've studied being visualized. :)
I dislike when people view Africa as one entity. For instance, where I am, in South Africa, we have a reasonable 2.34 births per woman, whereas countries like Uganda and the DRC have fertility rates of over 5 per woman. That's frightening. A few South American countries are also above replacement level. Countries tend to have high birth rates when death rates are high, and education levels are low. It's a pity many African countries are being governed so poorly. I see a resource disaster on the horizon.
I know this?
What do you do with a master's in demography? And what did you study prior? I'm asking because it sounds like an interesting thing to study
We will reach 12 Billion once humans start exploring (and colonize) different planets.
More people doesn't necessarily mean more progress, if we have lots of uneducated people and hardly any educated people the progress rate will stay the same, and with the school system's decline in doubting we'll be in such good shape. Scientists predict that we won't land on Mars until the 2030s or even later.
You didn't understand what I said.
I didn't say we will explore space once we'll reach 12 billion, I said that once we start exploring and colonising space we'll reach 12 billion.
Space colonisation first, 12 billion later.
Logic
Only if.
AQ The FanAttic Best to stay positive eh?
Yooo you guys should’ve kept this animation style, its definitely my favorite out of all of them. Not saying the current style isn’t good, this one is just a little cooler
Overpopulation is only in the large cities. There is so much empty space on earth.
Take a train across Russia and see how underpopulated our planet is.
Overpopulation isn't us taking up all the space, it's about the limit of how many resources we have /can produce.
Engelberto Macias
Also, and yet we still did not start farming algae and mollusc's on a large scale. Think about all the farm-able organic algae that can be eaten like vegetables.
We will use less of the resources, when the energy is all solar, hydro and wind power. Right now we use too much, but technology is helping us to use less every year.
Think about all the used stuff we can buy on the Internet for less than half the price :-)
liberals promote overpopulation to win elections, this is all your fault.
John Doe shut the fuck up
lol those places are unpopulated for a reason and that reason is that they are uninhabitable. Think about it. There's plenty of space in Antarctica and Greenland but you don't see humans trying to live there lol.
"Entire world including Europe" ..wait..what?
lol
No. We hate Europe. She is ugly and old :v
GM Films cuz Europe isn't part of the Planet - lol XD
GM Films he mixed Europe with Europa
Alexandrite's Providence Yeah..We are a seperate world within the world.. :D
Do you remember when he used to draw human characters instead of ducks? God, this video gives me nostalgia, I've learnt so much from this brilliant bunch of atoms. Thank you for making content!
I would rather call them ‘they’ instead of ‘he’
@@teun6743 shut
It’s not one guy, it’s a team
I like the ducks.
@@tnl-warrior3218 it wasn't some misgendering pronoun stuff, it's that it's a team of multiple people, not just the narrator
funny how this video was in my recommended right after watching pyrocynicals utopia video essay
"Women only had 2.2 children"
"Yah so here's Bethany, Mark and Rose, but Rose is only 1/8th sooo yah"
so rose is only a talking head?
but 0.2 is 1/5th not 1/8th
@@snowingbook 👁️👄👁️- I'm smooth brain loll
@Arun s I'm smooth brained so not wrinkly 😔
@@kalebrooks6833 essentially yes
0:37 The slowest, most sedate stabbing ever.
And the calmest one too
that is the meaning of sedate
a granny, what did you expect?
We found the inposter
🤣🤣
This is one of the most underrated channels on TH-cam.
Kurzgesagt at least has over 1 mil subs.
Life Noggin still is more underrated, they have yet to reach 1 mil subs.
Life Noggin uploads weekly, therefore Life Noggin is a more frequent Kurzgesagt and Blocko is a fast bird.
I almost have a brain Indeed. But the point of what I am trying to say is that these channels deserve way more subs and views (and likes)
Fleece Manjenkins Life Noggin is pretty good, but Kurzgesagt is better.
Funny thing, is now we are worried about underpopulation.
I think half of the people in these comments have not actually taken away anything from the video.
@deathtrooper666 Your logic is flawless!
No we have. It's just that we don't care. Or to put it simply we can't do anything but watch and observe what the higher ups decide to do and memes are the only way to accept this as a fact and lead us away from having an existential crisis to the point where we a
start believing that we're doomed and nobody out there can saves us just becuase we were unfortunately born in the wrong family or to put it in better terms. A lesser family. We know we are doomed but we don't want to be reminded.
It helps us coup with all the shit going on around us and helps lead us from an immeasurable deppression because in the end our life will have become meaningless. So yeah.
We aren't stupid.
As a great little girl once said "The meme lords are truly the intellectuals of this world"
Ik its so sad... i was expecting something completely different.
@@voli293
Helps us -Cope-.
They do, they just strongly disagree, national pride and nationalism is a very powerful poison of this earth civilization.
The deer population around the world is staggering.
oh deer oh deer oh deer.....
badum tsh
i'd say it's been stagnating recently
oh deer
Andra stag-gering
0:39 casually stabs him
I mean that's just a regular Saturday routine
🔪 ヽ(´ー｀)
Bunch of thanks to all team members
Overpopulation: exists
Covid 19: allow me to introduce myself
Covid19 is barely lethal. I think it introcuded itself to stop carbon emissions in China. And what do you know. China's emissions dropped by over 30% :D
@galapin kayana I already have it, so no.
@@GamePhysics go to isolation ward bro
@@sumanshukla2666 No need to go anywhere. I've quarantined myself at home.
@@GamePhysics just curious with your exp. I'm in lockdown here in Manila.
Undeveloped countries have more poverty. Less money correlates with a lower education. Which further extends to a higher birth rate. They need the help of developed countries.
However, developed countries waste alot. For example, America wastes 40% of their food. Developed countries outsource their jobs, those jobs that make it possible to live and/or to be a developed country such as farming or mass industry. The major reason is because it's *cheaper*. Thus, we start back at where I began.
We have the technology and the means to change the world; however, human society needs to fundamentally change before we can reach a sustainable world.
Developed countries won't go back to being developing countries because they outsource their jobs. Part of the process to become a developed country is to become a service economy. The developing process is:
farms and mines -> factories -> service economy.
Take China for example. China is on stage 2 right now (factories). China imports rough material from countries on stage 1 (like countries on Latin America and Africa) and exports their products to countries on stage 3 (like America and Europe). China is trying to become a service economy, which is why companies are starting to move their factories to other poorer countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Manufacturing jobs have been lost in the West since the 60's. Nevertheless, countries in the West have become even more developed and wealthy since then. That's because they became service economies. This is why education is so important, because you need educated workers to work on service jobs.
I study economics by the way.
Rick Apocalypse It would be very unlikely for a developed country to undevelop itself.
What would happen if all countries reach stage 3? Do you think stage 1 countries need to climb up the economic ladder towards wealth by becoming a service economy?
I'm just saying in my above comment that devloped countries have mutual benefits with developing countries; however, this bond limits their growth if they don't change.
Who will pay for the free lunch?
(As someone has to pay)
Brian Sanchez
There are no free lunches, surly you don't suggest that. And developing countries are the ones that benefit the most from interactions with developed countries. That's why most developing countries have annual growths of ~10% while most developed countries only grow at about ~1%. And well developed countries can do things like farming and factory production, but it usually isn't worth it, because service jobs are more productive. Why have 3 factory workers and 7 farmers, when 1 farmer, 1 factory worker an 8 engineers and produce so much more. There are exceptions, of course, like Venezuela, which is miserable due to bad governance, or Sweden which is wildly successful because of high innovation and great infrastructure.
Well, when 10% of people inside your country become educated and get better paying jobs, this also benefits the other 90%. Because the supply of uneducated workers gets smaller and this values their labor. The same thing happens with countries. When one country moves up the ladder, the other countries below it benefit.
So if all countries but India, for example, become service economies, India could potentially become a developed country just by selling rough material (farms and mines) to the other countries, because everyone else would be forced to buy from them.
When you hit stage 3, there is only one thing left to grow your productivity: technology. But as technology advances and robots keep replacing humans in factories (and in some service jobs), factories will increasingly become a thing of the past. And more more countries will be forced to try to move to stage 3. Will may very well see in 50 years the same percentage of people who work in farms today also be the same percentage who work in factories.
But even if this doesn't grow the economy of countries in stage 3, it would still benefit them with lower prices. People are taking for granted the low prices they have today on imported manufactured goods from poor countries and backpedaling on globalization. They will see the consequences of protectionism once they start seeing the increase in prices.
hamstsorkxxor Well of course they have higher growth rates. There's more to grow and because we have a head start and share that with them so that speeds it up immensely. (I don't actually mean sharing international politics is a little more complicated)
If half the world is male, does that mean on average, everyone only has one testicle?
Lmaooooo
ACBobbinsNL Wait, wtf?! I never thought about it in that way!!! xDDD
And one boob
It also means that men have double the average penis size since half the population have no penises :^)
creativityfails1 no, men would have half their penis size due to the fact that women have none. (At least some of them)
Five years later... 8 Billion!
What of Japan who has reached the 5th stage
They are actually wrong, there is a cycle in population which we can observe today. Japan reached the 5th state and now it is going back to 3rd one, because growth of the population is a fact.
What is the 5th stage?
Declining overall population, ie less than 2 children per household
Lucas Dahl well as you can deduce from the previous 4 stages it is when fewer people are born than they die.
Oh ok, but its Only when more than 2 children are BORN per household, not more than survives right? And how mant countries are today in this stage?
Somebody should show Thanos this.
lol. right tho.
or he could just create infinite resources (if the infinity gauntlet was strong enough).
we are not talking about fortnite dude.
Oleashed are you joking?
His theory is not bad but he does that in a rude way
More highly educated people doesn't mean better job, it will just rise the standard for entry-level jobs. I came from a small country where 95% of the population has Bachelor's degree, and you can't get any job without getting a 4-year degree. You literally have to go through university to get a job in McDonald's, and your grade can't be bad either since there are too many people with good grades.
Sean's Piano What country is that?
Sean's Piano I'm sorry did NASA build its own fucking country
Sean's Piano what fucking country is that LMAO. you sound so dumb saying 95% of people have a bachelor's degree in any area.
I've heard much the same as Sean's Piano from a friend who moved to America from Romania. She says the average citizen there has between 2 and 3 degrees, yet the number of quality jobs doesn't grow proportionately.
HomelessOnline even if they are working in mcdonalds its still better to be well educated than not
The one and only video of Kurzgesagt so far that I struggle to believe in the content of. Middle East and India still make me feel like this overbreeding will never end.
GOOD NEWS??? HERE??? CAN THIS BE REAL???
DID I JUST WATCHED A KURZGESAGT VIDEO WITHOUT HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS???
Yes?
kurz gesagt. Gut Gemacht.
Mad Geo well the vid is wrong so
FAK U GAVE ME ONE
Mad Geo omg yes
I am from India , currently the most populated nation in the planet .people here are ignorant about population explosion . needless to say life is hell here. where ever you go there are people here It feels like even if I kill myself will be difficult to find soil to bury my body .Every one knows one day population growth will go down . but question is when? not in our life for sure . I am certain by then high population rate would have caused irreparable damage to earth. For some reason dinosaurs got wiped , some say reason is it got multiplied beyond earth's capacity may be that will repeat even before human kind reaches its peak..
very true
i want government to impose one child policy , but this is not possible under democracy .
karan verma
2 child policy is possible, need of the day . in rural India it is normal to have childrens more than 4
You are missing hell lot of points . China ended one child policy only when they achieved their targets like raising national living standards , economy and infrastructure . Now average chinese is economically well off and over 97% literate all due to one child policy .Now there is no way a literate chinese going back to the 70's state like producing more than 2 children so they withdraw this one child policy. India is not even comparable where today poor people always produce more children beyond their capacity. and constantly add more illiterate and poor in to the nation . this cycle continues without any stop . Understand this China was poorer than India in the 70's they lifted huge number of people out of poverty in short span of time all with this birth control . now their economy is over 3 times larger than india . India's current population level is way above the saturation level even if India maintains TFR at replacement level for many years it wont create a better livable atmosphere for the majority masses . It needs to be at 600-700 million people for optimal use of natural resources dont forget India is only 1/3 of china in land area.
*THANOS HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*
Click your damn finger already!
*THANOS SNAP*
Please decimate the excessive population 😂😂😂😜😜😜
Then I would explain Thanos how he was wrong. As this video explained. Just because his people messed that turnaround up, does not mean everyone will.
Of course the normal Marvel Storyline is that the wants to kill "half the Universe" to get a date with Lady Death. Wich oddly makes a whole lot more sense then his "bring the universe into Balance" thing from the MCU.
*Spider-man leaves the chat and “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good”*
This short video has really changed my understanding of population growth. Thanks.
i feel bad for that 0.5th kid...
What if there are 5 children in 2 household? What's the average of each household?
2.5 kids on average
it's just numbers. It doesn't mean they have a half kid,tho.
no shit sherlock
+Ege Yıldırım Dx
At least it's better than that .4 kid
Wow, a Kurzgesagt video with outlines on the illustrations! Never seen that one before.
@@micahhenley589 Winter is coming and with it the army of dead! (Games of thrones 7:2)
@@micahhenley589 I do have strong faith in God but, what does God have to do with anything?
@@micahhenley589
Hullo! Issa me, Jesus. You did an ok job, but you also used David's toothbrush to clean the toilet, so spend some time in purgatory to make up for that.
Yes John, I know about the toothbrush...
it's okay Thanos will deal with it
If thanos halved the population on earth, it would only set us back to the population we were at in the 1970’s lmao. He would only knock back 50 years
@@eyesinthesky7102 And would only make things worse, (ignoring the fact that he could just make double or infinite resources), supply chains are the reasons why we can eat, and disrupting those supply chains would be much more disastrous.
@@josephpayne113 it would be bad initially, but we would be able to pick back up on everything for the capacity of the people we have. The 1970s weren’t an unlivable supply chain hell. We’d simply build back up, requiring less of a supply chain with our less population, and be back where we are at full capacity in today’s time soon enough.
@@eyesinthesky7102 two glove snap wipe out 100%
@@nichsulol4844 of that were his goal yeah