I'm Not Sure How Humanity Will Recover From This - Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson responds to Elon Musk's population collapse prediction. What is the global population doing? Does Jordan Peterson think there are too many people on the earth? Are Elon Musk's population collapse and population decline predictions going to happen?

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[steverempel]

My theory is that population growth drops rapidly as soon as your society requires both parents to work. For the society to have children at a replacement rate, the economy needs to support a stay at home parent, or people will think it's too hard to have children.

[TheTrock]

I grew up w/ my granparents who were married shortly before the Great Depression. They raised 5 kids and then took on my brother and I. Gram would put on a pot of coffee after Church on Sunday, because someone would usually come to visit. There was a type of connection and ease with family and friends that is sadly lacking today. We've lost more than we've gained. My Wife and I also have 5 kids, but we have to work all the time. Families are being squeezed too hard.

[JL-forz]

My biggest issue for not having kids is not having enough money. I'm in the US and the cost of living is ridiculously high even without kids. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation.

[ImissVine]

Parents during childhood: “You don’t know how HARD it is to take care of you!”
Kid as an adult: Remembers parent saying this and doesn’t have kids
Parents: *Surprised Pikachu Face*

[redshark]

When I was in my twenties, we were warned that human population would spiral out of control. We were also supposed to fear a coming ice age. Now were told the opposite. Predicting the future is a fool's errand.

[wildwarturkey]

The cost of housing and living increases and people respond by having less children, who didn't see that one coming?

[Chrisdaddyx]

A lot of these population collapse videos seem pretty tone deaf.
Having and raising children requires resources like money, community support, and time.
Even most of the comments under these videos acknowledge how expensive this is.
Who’s going to volunteer to have children when you have to spend most of your free time at work and even then can barely afford to house and feed yourself?

[ricflairr]

As a hospital leader I can tell you this is already a problem and it’s coming to roost right now, there simply aren’t enough young people in the healthcare workforce, I’ve only been there for 11 years and now I’m one of the most senior people there, between retirement, quitting due to stress and over worked, covid, etc. we don’t have enough workers to keep up w the increasing volume of patients

[jon]

When the elites start saying there’s to many people on the earth and something has to be done, “well go ahead and start with yourself and do us all a favor. Leave this planet by any means you wish.” They say there’s to many of us but for some odd reason they don’t count themselves as one of the “to many of us.”

[colinmc]

Reasons for this phenomenon
1. Shrinking of middle class requiring both parents to work
2. Dramatic increase in cost of having and raising children, particularly cost of education
3. Increase in work culture generally taking more and more available time from families

[jaredhaas]

While I understand the economics of population decline, I also think that any economic system which requires perpetual population growth is doomed to fail.

[agustinbernal]

I'm Antinatalist because of ethics towards sentient beings. Nobody is advocating for death! Nobody is advocating for suicide based on guilt! You two don't give any rational reason to reproduce and growth.
"I don't hate life and I don't desire death. I just regret being born". Emil Cioran.

[CaptainNewman]

They crapped on the youngs for so long. We got crushed. And now theyre confused why we can't afford families?

[JrnMnd]

I really enjoy Dr. Peterson’s contrarian stances on things that I’ve been raised to believe to be universal truths. Really sheds light on how profoundly tight these hysterias have a grip on our culture. Phew, thank god for this man.

[Valdrex]

Thing is, patenting sucks. Plenty of other things to occupy your time in a wealthy country. I don't blame young people for opting out at all. They see the day to day grind people like me go through and say no thanks.

[Gdeluume]

World population NEEDS to shrink. It would bring more resources for those who remain. The modem system NEEDS to fail.
A return to a close connection to the earth is the key to happiness, mental health, etc, and that can't happen with so many people.

[sal]

There's enough on this planet for everybody's needs, but not enough for everybody's greed

[melanielinkous]

" You're on the side of the planet? Whatever the hell that means. "
Priceless.

[Nick-gvsi]

My observation is that in our small bubbles in our small cities, our areas seem to have no room. For anyone. Everywhere you go is traffic. Every restaurant has a wait. Every home is over priced, the cost of everything is too high. All of these indicators usually point to a supply shortage, and supply shortaged usually points to not being able to meet the demand. Everyone in our generation 25-35 years now, has been getting kicked by these indicators since we have been adults. We all look at each other and say, well i didnt change anything....but now my drive to work takes 3 times as long. So whole trying to stay afloat and mentally strong and resilient, i should voluntarily add raising a child into the mix. Its tough for us to climb yet another mountain.

[MoivinSulunker]

Now too many people. Just check the status of fishing. Most fishes are contaminated any more because of excess of people.