Irish birthrate slumps 22% in a decade

Can't have noticed that certain contributors are only blaming immigration.

A bit of myopia going on here

But sure what's the issue with those Goodfellows.

I think that’s a “dog whistle”, don’t talk about immigration, or I’ll call you a racist.

How can you plan for such increasing population, if you’re afraid or ideological opposed to admitting it’s happening?

For the tenth time, births are dropping precipitously worldwide. Europe, North America, Australasia, East Asia, and much of Latin America are already below replacement level fertility.

China and India alone comprise 40% of the global population. The Chinese fertility rate is already catastrophically low at ~1.3. The population of China is projected to be less than 700 million by the end of this century. India dropped below replacement level last year. In fact, many of the southern Indian states have already been below the replacement threshold for more than a decade. Due to the tempo effect, the Indian population will continue growing until the 2050s, when it is projected to plateau and then begin declining.

Looking at other global regions, the Maghreb and the Middle East are scarcely above replacement level fertility and will almost certainly drop below that threshold within a decade. Take Iran as a example. In the 1970s, the fertility rate was between 5.0 and 6.0. Today, that same fertility rate is 1.7, lower than Ireland and significantly below the 2.2 threshold for a developing nation.

The only global region in which there is on-going, explosive population growth, is sub-Saharan Africa. That’s where efforts should be directed to curb expanding populations. Promote development, education of women, effective contraception, and abortion in that region. Fertility rates could be moderated within one generation if there was a concerted effort to tackle the demographic explosion happening there. Of course, this is unlikely to happen, for reasons that dare not be spoken, but are implicitly understood.

The poster made the claim that births need to drop. They are in free fall. That’s the point I was dealing with.

Climate change is real and is happening. This is a problem that needs to be tackled urgently. Solutions of varying degrees of efficacy will be devised.

Mankind will muddle through as it always does. Predictions of our imminent demise have always proven to be premature. I suspect this will continue to be the case.

Which scientists have you pressed? Can you cite their projected outcomes and their credentials to offer that opinion?

Frankly, your musings feel like they originate from somebody who is exhausted, depleted, ramping down in life. I work in tech; I come together with others every day to solve difficult problems. I’m confident that when people collaborate, bring together their collective intellectual horse power, they’ll find solutions.

I’m off out now to bring my two young kids to the beach. My pregnant wife is having a lie-in. Oops, I guess I’m part of the problem. On the bright side, I feel like I’ve done my bit to bolster our flagging birth rate!

Have a good one.

I heard there is a correlation between the declining birth rate and the decline in support for FG and FF because the middle class are among the most impacted by the declining birth rate. The radical Green Party wants to depopulate the planet and they think that food is "too cheap".

The decline of FG and FF is very interesting, though. It's no wonder the declining middle class are increasingly wanting someone else running the country in 2025.

Proposed laws requiring Men to prove consent (which are deeply flawed and a breach of the EU Treaties) will mean that more Men will boycott relationships with Women. It's going too get a lot harder for Ladies to find a good guy. There's one bonus to this in that the extremist Rape Crisis Network are celebrating these new laws - I think that tells us all we need to know.

The population worldwide continues to grow. Without a severe reduction in population growth (negative would be nice), we won't reach anything like 'peak people' except due to loss of resources, i.e., if peak people is 'how many can the planet support' we're probably past that already.

This is where hysteria gets in the way of reality. There is no crisis here at all.

You could fit every single person on the planet today easily in to the state of Texas and every single one would enjoy over 8,000 sq ft of their own private area.

A bit of perspective is what's missing today.

Too many people being influenced by complete lunatics telling them the world's about to end.

Sigh. Like this is a new pro-overpopulation gotcha. What would they eat? What would they drink? What happens when they need to take a dump. A bit of perspective is definitely needed when sh1te like this is spouted (goes back to at least the 1970's when I first heard it.)

The only way that works is in the Matrix. Not reality.

The problem has never been "overpopulation" of the planet. The planet can support many more people than will exist in 2100. The problem is that we tend to congregate in the same areas. We need to start seriously rethinking where people live and how they live cos this issue isn't going to go away.