[Falconoffury]

The Japanese are generally a very polite people, but I am glad I don't live there.

http://www.riotvideo.com/Japanese_Subway.html

The video depicts 3 security guards shoving the last few passengers into an overcrowded subway.

We need peak oil before this overcrowding gets any worse.

[SinisterBlueCat]

oh god, how do that stand it?!

[Antimatter]

Japanese population has pretty much peaked anyway. No need for mass death fantasies.

[BlisteredWhippet]

I don't know one woman that doesn't feel the urge to create a carbon copy of herself, or preferably, multiple copies.

Seriously, evolution and reproduction will not be thwarted no matter how inhumane conditions on Earth get.

Even if we have to be packed onto buses like cattle.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'I') don't know one woman that doesn't feel the urge to create a carbon copy of herself, or preferably, multiple copies.

[Falconoffury]

Most women that I know love babies. I would say over 90% could go on about how they love babies or would love to have a child who likes like so and so in the family or have this personality or that. I think it generally applies to women under 40.

Thankfully, we don't have an unlimited power source that will allow us to get so overpopulated that everyone will be living shoulder to shoulder and the Earth would glow brightly like the sun. I don't remember where I heard that shoulder to shoulder thing, but apparantly that would happen if population growth continued its current curve.

[JeeBoomba]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'I') don't know one woman that doesn't feel the urge to create a carbon copy of herself, or preferably, multiple copies.

Seriously, evolution and reproduction will not be thwarted no matter how inhumane conditions on Earth get.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JeeBoomba', '.').. many, many nations are already showing negative population growth.

[Falconoffury]

What does many many countries mean? I can only think of a few in Europe. Even Japan is still growing very slowly (like 30,000 people per year). Some countries may have a flat or shrinking birth rate, but they are growing from immigrants from other countries that are currently growing.

I remember calculating in another thread a few months ago that if the birth rate of the world stayed the same, then 3 times the number of people that die per year would have to be added to the death rate in order to have a flat population. You could also say that the death rate would have to go up by 200%. Somewhere between 50 million and 60 million people die per year, but around 150 million people are born. I no longer have the source for that information, but I do remember posting it very clearly.

[BlisteredWhippet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'I') don't know one woman that doesn't feel the urge to create a carbon copy of herself, or preferably, multiple copies.

[Raxozanne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', '
')Maybe women don't have more babies sooner, maybe they have less than 1.9 babies per couple in the USA... Whatever. Somehow the world's population reached 6.5 billion last week and I think women had something to do with it.

[Falconoffury]

Unfortunately, some of it is the fault of men because more men rape women than vice versa.

[BlisteredWhippet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', '
')Maybe women don't have more babies sooner, maybe they have less than 1.9 babies per couple in the USA... Whatever. Somehow the world's population reached 6.5 billion last week and I think women had something to do with it.

[Kickinthegob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'T')he responsibility for the act of having children is squarely on the shoulders of the woman if the choice exists to have the child or not

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kickinthegob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'T')he responsibility for the act of having children is squarely on the shoulders of the woman if the choice exists to have the child or not

[Raxozanne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kickinthegob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'T')he responsibility for the act of having children is squarely on the shoulders of the woman if the choice exists to have the child or not

[Falconoffury]

I exercise the right to not have children of my own. One man can impregnate many women, so even if a small percentage of men choose to never have sex, more than enough men will be around to impregnate all the women. If a small percentage of women choose to never have sex, that's a real reduction in birth rates. In that way, women have power over reproduction, but only if they have the power to enforce that choice. In many cultures, men dominate women so completely that women cannot exert their own choices.

[BlisteredWhippet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raxozanne', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kickinthegob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', 'T')he responsibility for the act of having children is squarely on the shoulders of the woman if the choice exists to have the child or not

[Wednesday]

I disagree with almost every opinionated generalization you made except one.

Young women in our current culture are alarmingly anti-intellectual. I find myself despairing about the lack of interest in the bloody history of the Womens Suffrage movement and in their own future.

What happened to the Women's movement you ask? We failed to teach our daughters any history.

I find some of your opinions fairly ridiculous, but you are certainly right about the apathy of some young women. I dislike generalizations, as a rule, but I have also noticed this trend.

[jaws]

One wonders why they don't add more trains.