'Empty Planet': The Looming Danger of Population Collapse Is Real

Empty playgrounds. Schools without enough students to stay open. Small towns, deserted and abandoned. This is not some dystopian vision of the future. Demographers say this is our future.

Global population growth is leveling off, and as early as the second half of this century could begin to shrink for the first time since the Black Death struck the world almost 700 years ago.

"Everything that we understand that functions in our societies today, that depends on people, which is almost everything, is going to change," says Stephen J. Shaw, a data scientist, demographer and producer of the film Birthgap.

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[JL-forz]

It's too expensive to have children.

[CmeonDiz]

Then why rents, inflation and cost of living is high?

[notdave]

Isn’t that what they’ve been wanting to happen? To save the planet or something?

[ahsaniqbal]

Population collapse i.e no more slaves to milk 😂

[oliverstianhugaas]

Also i never understood the problem "Not enough young people to take care of the elderly" why is this a problem? The elderly dug their own grave and now they got to step into it.

[HassanAskari-vtdo]

Rich old want poor young to be slaves.

[vitaminprotein]

This is the bubonic plague in the 21st century the economic inequality plague 😂😂😂

[kennycarter]

simpel solution.. reduce costs of child care. its way too expensive to raise children in the world's current economy, we can barely feed ourselves and kids can equal bankruptcy

[tommygertcher]

Unfortunately it's not going to be a big deal. 10 years ago it was overpopulation, now it's this. Also, fun fact, after the bubonic plague, workers got better treatment because they became more valuable.

[freedomwatch]

Bad for economy, but good for the environment.

[williamriley]

In 1950 there were 2.5 billion people on the planet and things seemed work out fine back then.

[spaceballs]

Well in America people can’t afford children.

[tynubernard]

Smart people don’t want to condemn their children to work 6 days and one to be free . To live and die in pollution. Think, the children is not yours it is an independent person that the government need it to pay the bills. Normal the government must pay you to have childrens

[mauricamcginnis]

If I had a choice I would not have kids in this world 🌎 .

[ELCLAVE]

I live in Los Angeles, there is no population shortage.

[patriot]

If that guy is scared now just imagine how he'll feel after Millions upon millions of Christians suddenly vanish

[sjcobra]

My life. My choice. I don't want offspring. I don't want to be married. I hate my genetics. My family history is fractured on both sides.

[Dndbdhxdvbxn]

Who can raise a family with these food prices

[HerveMendell]

The population has just surpassed 8 billion and is still growing. Some populations are shrinking, Europe and Japan, but some are still growing, sub-Saharan Africa and the Islamic world.

[dou]

they say that no civilization recovered from population collapse and they mention the black death that shrunk the population dramatically in the 14th century, and from which the world recovered it just took 300 years. We are a civilization obsessed by controlling everything but you just can’t. We are living in a time of permanent and accelerating changes to which humans have hard times to adapt themselves.