Jawdropping NYT story: From South Korea to South America, from Italy to the U.S., we're witnessing an epochal fall in fertility: "Like an avalanche, the demographic forces — pushing toward more deaths than births — seem to be expanding & accelerating." nytimes.com/2021/05/22/wor
This global birth dearth puts our economy, our polity and our very way of life in the modern world into question.
George Freidman discussed this in his underrated book, "The Next 100 Years", where he makes many salient predictions. One reflects the posted passage; by 2070 the world population will be in decline. This will affect fears of overpopulation, climate change, and other issues.
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