No lies detected here from pretty much the only famous person willing to discuss this looming crisis:
"Most people in the world are operating under the false impression that there are too many people. This is not true. The earth could maintain a population many times its current level. And the birth rate has been dropping like crazy.
Unfortunately, we have these ridiculous population estimates from the U.N. that need to be updated because they just don't make any sense. Really, you just look at, say, what was the birthrate last year, how many kids were born, and multiply that by the life expectancy, and say, okay, that's how many people will be alive in the future.
And then say, 'Is the trend for birthrate positive or negative?' It's negative. So that's the best case, unless something changes for the birth rate.
You can look at, take Japan for example. I think—I'm just going off memory here—but I think the population is roughly 110 million. Last year, if you take the number of children born times the life expectancy, which is 85 years—it's a very impressive life expectancy—then Japan would have, I think, around 68 million people, roughly half of the current population.
That does not tell the full story. Because ... you would have an upside-down demographic pyramid. You already have an upside-down demographic pyramid, where, you know—a lot of old people, very few young people. That upside-down demographic pyramid is unstable."
In short, we need to have more babies, folks, and we need to start having them now.
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