Of all the ways to confront looming resource crises, falling birthrates seems to me the gentlest. Human populations have expanded tremendously since 1900. What can’t go on, won’t go on.
Yes there will be problems as a result of demographic decline. Worse than the problems of continued expansion?
Most of the men worried about this seem to see it more as an opportunity to complain about uppity bitches than to actually think about ensuring future human flourishing.
Yes, I think there could be huge problems as a result of reduced populations, but also opportunities for changes in how societies are structured and what they prioritize. Unfortunately men are still not granting women authority to speak on this subject and more importantly to be heard.
I think that the impregnating of women with foetuses that are not genetically related to them creates a situation where men think the mothers (gestators) won’t care about their babies. However, quite apart from the danger to mother and child of such pregnancies (hey, you can’t just rent a womb without harm. Who knew?) while the mother may know the baby is due to be removed at birth and try to regulate her emotions accordingly, with greater or lesser success, the baby does not know and does not regulate its emotions. As a result, we can expect massive birth trauma at a baby being removed from its true mother (the mother inside whose body she/he has spent her/his entire life until then and who has been her/his entire world) and placed with complete strangers.
Yet the tech bros who encourage this see no problem there , and even want babies grown in pods, believing that there will be no difference between babies with mothers and babies without them.
This is mad and very bad. Women in the role of mothers make humans by growing them inside their bodies and loving them in a way no-one else can. We even produce milk that responds to our baby’s physical needs on an hourly basis, while the guys think that nasty formula milk is just fine and dandy for each and every baby each and every day, and to hell with their individual and hourly needs.
Mothers are the centre of the human universe, not rich men. In a mere 4,000 years of patriarchy they have almost destroyed humankind. Well done guys.
Of all the ways to confront looming resource crises, falling birthrates seems to me the gentlest. Human populations have expanded tremendously since 1900. What can’t go on, won’t go on.
Yes there will be problems as a result of demographic decline. Worse than the problems of continued expansion?
Most of the men worried about this seem to see it more as an opportunity to complain about uppity bitches than to actually think about ensuring future human flourishing.
Yes, I think there could be huge problems as a result of reduced populations, but also opportunities for changes in how societies are structured and what they prioritize. Unfortunately men are still not granting women authority to speak on this subject and more importantly to be heard.
I think that the impregnating of women with foetuses that are not genetically related to them creates a situation where men think the mothers (gestators) won’t care about their babies. However, quite apart from the danger to mother and child of such pregnancies (hey, you can’t just rent a womb without harm. Who knew?) while the mother may know the baby is due to be removed at birth and try to regulate her emotions accordingly, with greater or lesser success, the baby does not know and does not regulate its emotions. As a result, we can expect massive birth trauma at a baby being removed from its true mother (the mother inside whose body she/he has spent her/his entire life until then and who has been her/his entire world) and placed with complete strangers.
Yet the tech bros who encourage this see no problem there , and even want babies grown in pods, believing that there will be no difference between babies with mothers and babies without them.
This is mad and very bad. Women in the role of mothers make humans by growing them inside their bodies and loving them in a way no-one else can. We even produce milk that responds to our baby’s physical needs on an hourly basis, while the guys think that nasty formula milk is just fine and dandy for each and every baby each and every day, and to hell with their individual and hourly needs.
Mothers are the centre of the human universe, not rich men. In a mere 4,000 years of patriarchy they have almost destroyed humankind. Well done guys.
From very bad to worst:
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