{"id":54258,"date":"2020-07-19T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54258"},"modified":"2020-07-19T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:38:54","slug":"so-it-turns-out-overpopulation-was-always-a-stupid-patriarchal-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54258","title":{"rendered":"So It Turns Out \u2018Overpopulation\u2019 Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So It Turns Out \u2018Overpopulation\u2019 Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A new study published in the Lancet<\/a> confirms what people like myself have been saying over<\/a> and over again<\/a> for years: that the human population is unlikely to get much bigger than it is right now, and will in fact begin declining in the latter half of this century as more and more women obtain money, education, and reproductive sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has nothing to do with sperm counts or the usual things that come to mind when discussing fertility,\u201d BBC News explains<\/a>. \u201cInstead it is being driven by more women in education and work, as well as greater access to contraception, leading to women choosing to have fewer children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mass media have been discussing these findings with shock and alarm<\/a>, because such information is likely to be new and surprising to anyone who has never gone through the all-consuming herculean effort of motherhood. To anyone who has, the idea that most women would choose to have two or fewer children if given the resources, information and freedom to do so is just self-evident common sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n