Imagine a world in which you no longer hear baby laughter. No newborns, empty schools, aging population - such a scenario looks like an dystopia, but it helps to rethink how fragile the survival of humanity is.
Anthropologists believe that if the birth rate stops completely, humanity will disappear in about 70-80 years. And although the first decades will be unnoticed - after all, people who are already living will support the rhythm of life - the structure of civilization will soon be destroyed.
Collapse due to lack of hands
The aging of the population will lead to a shortage of specialists. Without young workers, medicine, education, energy, transport will decline. Supply chains will break, production will stop, maintenance of basic needs will be impossible. Gradually, this will lead to social and economic degradation, and in the end - to complete extinction of the species.
Water and medicine will be a luxury
With the decrease in the number of skilled personnel, the problem will begin even with basic resources - clean water, medical care, medicine. Humanity will lose the ability to maintain even minimal safety and hygiene standards.
Apocalypse scenarios - already in culture
Fiction writers have long model similar scenarios. Kurt Vonnut in the Galapago Islands depicted the virus that has made humanity barren. Other options are a nuclear catastrophe or global pandemic that will make humanity disappear without descendants.
The fall has already started?
Currently, fertility levels in many countries are lower than the simple generation reproduction. Women are increasingly giving up motherhood or delaying it because of their careers, financial instability or climatic anxiety. These are the first signals of the demographic downturn.
History Teaches: Surveys the one who adapts
Homo Sapiens has been over 200,000 years old, but even Neanderthals have disappeared despite the millennia. In order to avoid the same fate, humanity must create a stable environment: maintain birth rates, develop reproductive health medicine, avoid wars and catastrophes.
Without a healthy environment and long -term survival strategies, we run the risk of losing not only the biological presence, but also the entire cultural heritage of humanity.
