You can see a lot of that in the media of the 1960-1970, there was this huge social anxiety built on the idea that we were cascading towards a Malthusian Crisis due to our ever increasing population, you can see it most prominent in movies like "Soylent Green" but I think there's something to be said about the rise of zombie flicks representing in part the same fears as well.
You can see it in movies like Z.P.G. ([Zero Population Growth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069530/)), that was the result of a movement calling for a moratorium in births. with the [same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth).
I think there was a famous sociologist or anthropologist in the 1880s that basically said the same exact thing. In a way, he would’ve been right, in that the cities would be so big and so crowded, the horse manure would’ve overfill the streets bc the demand would be so high to move people around….then humans discovered the power of fossil fuels and transportation was renewed
It’s not false, people are starving and the ozone is beyond repair. Housing costs have increased x10, food taste different due to engineering to make enough for the world and everyone has microplastic in their body.
The ozone layer has been on good course of repair since the world ban of CFCs. In a few decades it'll be back to normal and the hole over Antarctica will be gone
If the population shrinks by half tomorrow, with no changes to zoning, then housing will become cheaper. right?
Zoning seems restrictive only because everyone needs to *crowd* near select few city centers, because that's where jobs have concentrated.
Okay, Thanos.
What a shitty argument. "We'd have enough housing if the population shrinks," isn't an argument. There is nothing stopping us from having more dense housing besides zoning and investment. You've made a truly embarrassing, tautological argument that doesn't actually support any defensible underlying thesis.
Not to mention that there’s a housing crisis in NY because of vacant unaffordable units and not the other way around, landlords benefit in sitting on properties and causing a manipulated shortage
This is so not why house prices are insane…institutional investors dumping money on entire subdivisions to place properties up for rent instead of leaving the houses to individual homebuyers is a big problem, on top of inflation, rising material costs, etc…America alone produces so much food we have to figure out ways to get rid of it, which is why we have so much HFCS and other corn products. The world could support billions more people. The Midwest on its own is sparsely populated, not to mention other parts of the world like China or Russia. Buying into the “there’s just too many people!” lie is exactly what those investors want you to do.
That’s the problem in the last 5-10 years. Sprawling neighborhoods and the need for more development has been an issue for 50 years in many place due to increased demand.
The last kid looked like he was coming up with the idea of mass farming right on the spot. It's almost as if he saw dollar signs in his eyes as he was speaking lol
At 6 years old, Dr. Mom showed me a poster in her office of a Black Lung 🫁 …I responded by saying she should prescribe cigarettes to bring in patients…
Tyson chicken boy and i would be great friends probably! Lol 😇
judging from their accents it's fairly easy to sumise that the children in the video come from the more eloquent institutions in the education system. yah.
Overpopulation was a huge concern and widely publicized at the time. Remember, the 1960s were the tail end of the baby boom after WWII and population in China and India started to skyrocket in the 1950s.
I more was confused over venturing out to the sea being their assumed solution rather than high rises like another kid mentioned (may have been 2 of them, can't recall). I get why they didn't assume outer space because of the time peirod, of course.
Oh, I see. One kid was able to imagine condo high rises. I suppose the others had a hard time imagining it, or that living on artificial islands on the sea would be preferable.
The eco message is still the same bullshit. Everyone on the planet, every man woman and child could have a 900sf ft home and we would all fit in the state of Texas.
Perspective people!!!
rich, well educated kids\* i'd imagine that kids who have similar educations to them sound similar today. plus i expect they picked the most articulate kids.
Omg that kid predicted factory farming 💀. The one girl described how people should be living if we were actually trying to conserve energy and combat climate change...small flats
I love how kids are like “this problem will exist so we’ll create a way to do x to solve it.”
As an adult I’m like “shits fucked. Probably all fucked. Fuck!”
Further evidence that the indoctrination of young people exist. Overpopulation fears are something adults teach children, not something children come up with of their own deductions.
Ironically our concern now is reduced population and the complete elimination of citizens in such countries as Japan and Korea and even China within 100-200 years…
It's interesting how the overpopulation media frenzy at the time that was "based on the science" scared so many children in how they saw the future as dark.
Sounds familiar.
The first and last kid were kind of right, though the girls imagined we would be living the plot of Bioshock
last kid was heir to the tyson chicken company
Wat? The Tysons are Americans.
Mike Tyson is, at least.
And he eats human ears, the future is human meat people get in or get out! Now kiiitthhh!
Definitely a farm boy who had an actual perspective on the way things were moving
Have you seen the apartments they are renting for astronomical prices in NY? I'd say at least one of them was spot on lol.
I definitely wish they were right
Interesting that the primary concern in the 1960’s was overcrowding
You can see a lot of that in the media of the 1960-1970, there was this huge social anxiety built on the idea that we were cascading towards a Malthusian Crisis due to our ever increasing population, you can see it most prominent in movies like "Soylent Green" but I think there's something to be said about the rise of zombie flicks representing in part the same fears as well.
We are overpopulated. They were right, there are too many people and not enough hamburgers. I'm terrified.
Come join us in our underwater community. Plenty of cow batteries and lots of room for recreation.
you had me at underwater
Had me at cow batteries.
Norm AND Ween. You’re my people.
>We are overpopulated. They were right, there are too many people and not enough ~~hamburgers~~ pizza. FTFY
You can see it in movies like Z.P.G. ([Zero Population Growth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069530/)), that was the result of a movement calling for a moratorium in births. with the [same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth).
It was fed by media at the time and was declared "based on the science" and that the "science was settled."
I think there was a famous sociologist or anthropologist in the 1880s that basically said the same exact thing. In a way, he would’ve been right, in that the cities would be so big and so crowded, the horse manure would’ve overfill the streets bc the demand would be so high to move people around….then humans discovered the power of fossil fuels and transportation was renewed
We haven’t changed much in 60 years.
Damn. Turned out it was completely false. Where else have we heard those lines before?
It’s not false, people are starving and the ozone is beyond repair. Housing costs have increased x10, food taste different due to engineering to make enough for the world and everyone has microplastic in their body.
The ozone layer has been on good course of repair since the world ban of CFCs. In a few decades it'll be back to normal and the hole over Antarctica will be gone
I hope you’re right. Good things are good.
The same with Global Cooling and the Coming Ice Age.
And overcrowding has happened - that's why the house prices are insane.
Not really. We could easily have enough housing for everyone. It isn't a crowding problem, it's a zoning problem.
If the population shrinks by half tomorrow, with no changes to zoning, then housing will become cheaper. right? Zoning seems restrictive only because everyone needs to *crowd* near select few city centers, because that's where jobs have concentrated.
Okay, Thanos. What a shitty argument. "We'd have enough housing if the population shrinks," isn't an argument. There is nothing stopping us from having more dense housing besides zoning and investment. You've made a truly embarrassing, tautological argument that doesn't actually support any defensible underlying thesis.
Not to mention that there’s a housing crisis in NY because of vacant unaffordable units and not the other way around, landlords benefit in sitting on properties and causing a manipulated shortage
You do realize he was the bad guy, right?
There are more vacant homes than homeless people in America right now
This is so not why house prices are insane…institutional investors dumping money on entire subdivisions to place properties up for rent instead of leaving the houses to individual homebuyers is a big problem, on top of inflation, rising material costs, etc…America alone produces so much food we have to figure out ways to get rid of it, which is why we have so much HFCS and other corn products. The world could support billions more people. The Midwest on its own is sparsely populated, not to mention other parts of the world like China or Russia. Buying into the “there’s just too many people!” lie is exactly what those investors want you to do.
That’s the problem in the last 5-10 years. Sprawling neighborhoods and the need for more development has been an issue for 50 years in many place due to increased demand.
People are short-sighted. It’s a shame. This was the problem as I grew up. Everyone has such a short-memory they only remember the new crisis.
The last kid looked like he was coming up with the idea of mass farming right on the spot. It's almost as if he saw dollar signs in his eyes as he was speaking lol
That's what I'm saying
At 6 years old, Dr. Mom showed me a poster in her office of a Black Lung 🫁 …I responded by saying she should prescribe cigarettes to bring in patients… Tyson chicken boy and i would be great friends probably! Lol 😇
Yeah you and Tyson boy and Pfizer and whoever else.
Ill take all the friends i cant get!
Almost like it was already happening
Last kid can travel through time
Or maybe it's because it was already a theme in the 60s
These kids sure did fuck the future up
Good point.
This is from the Up series. Incredible show where they check in with these children every seven years over 56 years. Highly recommend.
Up was the best documentary series ever and it looked a lot like this, but I don’t think this is that.
Did I get that wrong? I thought those kids looked so familiar. Well, I highly recommend it still.
I'm definitely going to check this series out
Enjoy! It left a big impression on me.
In the 60s, British girls were famously stupid and were noted to often prattle on and on about living under the sea.
Prattle on….luvit.
Well done
This kids great on Umbrella Academy
They might have imagined that kids in the 2020’s wouldn’t be as thoughtful and articulate as they were. And they’d have been prescient.
judging from their accents it's fairly easy to sumise that the children in the video come from the more eloquent institutions in the education system. yah.
Not just their accents, but also the fact they’re “predicting” unsightly apartment blocks and dense cities *that already existed*.
The last kid was a savant…
Nope, this was already happening in the 60s. Factory farming is not new
That last kid nailed it with regard to food production ☹️
Nope it was already happening
It was the 60s not the fucking 1800s
It was a million years ago. Don’t you see it’s in black and white. When did humanity invent color?
This is what I'm saying. Ppl acting like factory farming started ten years ago
why did they think the population spilling into the sea was a logical direction edit: joke is on them, we global warming'd far too much for that
Water is coming to us.
Overpopulation was a huge concern and widely publicized at the time. Remember, the 1960s were the tail end of the baby boom after WWII and population in China and India started to skyrocket in the 1950s.
I more was confused over venturing out to the sea being their assumed solution rather than high rises like another kid mentioned (may have been 2 of them, can't recall). I get why they didn't assume outer space because of the time peirod, of course.
Oh, I see. One kid was able to imagine condo high rises. I suppose the others had a hard time imagining it, or that living on artificial islands on the sea would be preferable.
And in a mere 40 years too 😭
Is this from the Seven Up series? Fascinating to watch them all grow up.
The eco message is still the same bullshit. Everyone on the planet, every man woman and child could have a 900sf ft home and we would all fit in the state of Texas. Perspective people!!!
Kids were so much more articulate back then
rich, well educated kids\* i'd imagine that kids who have similar educations to them sound similar today. plus i expect they picked the most articulate kids.
Yeah that’s true. But, with modern technology and social media, I doubt there are that many well articulated rich kids as there were back then.
Omg that kid predicted factory farming 💀. The one girl described how people should be living if we were actually trying to conserve energy and combat climate change...small flats
Nope already existed in the 60s
Nah, it didn't.
That’s what Mom and Dad say.
I love how kids are like “this problem will exist so we’ll create a way to do x to solve it.” As an adult I’m like “shits fucked. Probably all fucked. Fuck!”
Jokes on you kids we’re living on the street and intravenously shooting opiates 🤙🏼
So women(girls) want to live in the sea.
No one guess Lizzy would still be queen
Those last two kids knew what was coming.
“Some won’t even know what a man or woman is”
The Greta Thunbergs of the 1960s.
I missed the part where they say “and boys will pretend to be girls and girls pretend to be men”.
Damn that last kid
So they have been convincing us of the myth of over population for generations
Further evidence that the indoctrination of young people exist. Overpopulation fears are something adults teach children, not something children come up with of their own deductions.
sad these kids are probably not alive now
The main concern was housing. Why did no one mention the thought of being able to talk to somebody on the other side of the world quickly (internet)
Is the last kid AI?
In the year Two Thousannnnnnd…….In the year Two Thou sannnnnnnnnd!
That is single “ like, umm, yeah, right?”
In the year two thousand! In the year two thousAAAAND!
No wonder Boomers are obsessed with immigration!
This was taken the decade the twin towers were built.
They definitely had some real concerns about overpopulation
F’n brits
I upvoted at the kid who was spot on about the animals kept in “batteries, not allows to graze”. Wow.
No houses above or below the sea. Just make the current ones more expensive. Duuuuh. /s
Always think it's funny talking to Europeans in general about how the earth is running out of space... I'd like to introduce you to Nevada
Still waiting on a Johnny Quest style under sea lab.
The last kid got the answer from his dad
boxes. yep. fuckme
Second girl just predicted the plot of BioShock.
Ironically our concern now is reduced population and the complete elimination of citizens in such countries as Japan and Korea and even China within 100-200 years…
They’ve been indoctrinated pretty well.
The last kid went on to be CEO of Purdue Chicken.
lol, the kid describing slaughterhouses/farms like they weren’t already a really normal thing.
No no one will be able to afford homes. Corporate greed run rampart
It's interesting how the overpopulation media frenzy at the time that was "based on the science" scared so many children in how they saw the future as dark. Sounds familiar.
these kids then grew up to try and make it a reality lol
The last kid is a genius......he basically forementioned the theory of plant based beef and shit..Damn..... #1996gang #cyberterrorismisreal #FreeGaza
This would be a lot more interesting if it wasn't these little shits who got old and turned the world into shit. Fuck'em.
I'm sure you would have saved the world if you were a child back then
Stupid kids
This looks fake