• Sebrof [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    68
    ·
    2 days ago

    I remember over the summer hearing on NPR (mandatory puke sounds) about how the fertility rates are dropping below replacement everywhere (it’s not) and nobody knows why (we do)

    Nobody has a single clue as to why this could possibly be happening!!!1!!! Why does no one wanna kids!!!

    Anyway it was real fucking frustrating to have pundits and the supersmart scientists dancing around the causes and painting all the white countries having declining birthrates as the biggest existential problem the world has ever known.

    • WoodScientist [she/her]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      ·
      2 days ago

      Animals in captivity usually don’t breed in large numbers. The animals we domesticated historically were the handful of weird species that would breed in captivity.

      Humans are animals. The more and more people feel they are in captivity, the fewer children they will have.

      • dat_math [they/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        2 days ago

        The animals we domesticated historically were the handful of weird species that would breed in captivity.

        Do you have a citation for this claim? My understanding from work experience when I was younger is that in modern agriculture, most stock is forcibly bred.