Molson Hart

I've recently been meeting a lot of people in their 30s who declare that they don't want children. "Because the world has too many people" "I would adopt" "The world is too cruel, I don't want to bring more people into it" And I just want to scream "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"

Maybe that's because I'm an asshole who is insensitive to the travails of pregnancy, but that's just my gut reaction. It's incomprehensible to me that wouldn't want the joy of children or prolonging your genetic line into the future.

Outside of Africa and maybe the middle east (I'm not sure people should be living in deserts of Saudi for example - it's just not built for that), the world does not have too many people. If anything, it has too few. I respect the adoption thing, but do both.

The world is cruel. But what's crueler than not giving a new life the chance to experience it. Hey, if they don't like it, they can leave at any time. Maybe this "I don't want to have kids thing" is just city dwellers who lack the money to raise kids, signalling virtue

I dont think it has anything to do with climate or morality or virtue signalling. It has been shown in animals that when they experience overcrowding in their environment they stop reproducing. If you take darwinism seriously humans could work the same. 1/2

Humanity have been urbanizing rapidly over the last few decades/centuries. It could be as simple as hormonal response to that which we later rationalize.

Mongolia and Bangladesh both have the same fertility rate though.

There are probably many factors. But i would not use population density on the country level. E.g. Canada is sparse but thats because much of it is ice, toronto is crowded. It would be more like % of ppl living in xyz crowded immediate neighborhoods.