The population is actually tipped to massively reduce on the next 100 years due to a large portion of people not have babies simply due to crappy economic conditions, inflation, war the lying flat movement in china and the ever increasing destruction of the middle class into the homeless poor. Aside from rich people destroying peoples ability to have happy lives, there's also the plastic problem that's quite literally made every male living thing have a reduced sperm count and it continues to drop as plastic is in the air, our clothes carpet and oceans. Endocrine disruptors in our bodies are being effected by chemicals found in vinyl products, thermal receipts and Tupperware releasing chemicals when heated in microwaves. These things are so small they enter the bloodstream and pass through the blood brain barrier.. Fuuuck

So if you want to save the future start by sniping off rich oligarchs and ban plastic completely

I decided that I personally felt unethical bringing people into this world nearly a decade ago

I knew when I was 12 I never wanted children. I got married at 20. I got fixed at 24. I am almost 40 and have no regrets other than not getting fixed sooner, but finding a doc to fix a lady at 18 is damn near impossible.

1/5th is low, and doesn't appear very different to the general female population.

This really just highlights the underlying problem and why our "efforts" are destined to amount to little more than shuffling deck chairs on the titanic — humans are selfish, and most of us are not willing to make major sacrifices to avert disaster; hell, most struggle to accept minor inconveniences.

Starting

Lol

lmao 'starting' ?? I believe starting should have been done years ago.

Reminds me of this South Park clip XD (youtube link)

Title could have said majority of millennials

no or fewer children

So… they killed other people’s children?

How do you have fewer than no children? (=P tongue in cheek purposeful misunderstanding, not true pedantry)

Edit: (Damn, even being clear I was being cheeky I still managed to piss someone off xD)

You've thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world

For threatenin' my baby Unborn and unnamed You ain't worth the blood That runs in your veins

im surprised its a fifth have no or fewer and not the other way around.

Even 30 years ago, it was very clear the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

And 30 years before that. And 30 years before that.

I mean, if you don't want to have kids more power to you. I get it.

But what I'm reading is far more a consequence of a social stigma against having kids without sufficient economic independence. And extraordinary rates of inflation in housing, food, health care, and education make kids utterly unaffordable even if the climate situation looks great.

“We are not so special that our genes need to be transmitted: values matter more.”

I think that's true up until a point. When I see the genocide in Gaza or forced sterilization policies aimed at black and Hispanic women in police custody in the US or caste violence in India or Myanmar or the Bill Gates Foundation's effort to quash population size in West Africa...

What values are we transmitting when we've got a policy of eugenics? What does it say about the western impulse to homogenize and euthanize everything it comes into contact with?

I can very easily see a world in which the impulse towards mass extermination gets us before the heat pushes us all into the upper reaches of Canada and Russia. And I'm loathe to see anti-natalism harnessed as one more tool in the bigot's bag of tricks, to justify why a population with high birth rates is an efficient target for population rightsizing.