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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 08, 2021, 01:02:26 PM

Title: Why declining birth rates are good news for life on Earth
Post by: rcjordan on July 08, 2021, 01:02:26 PM

"In the 19th century, a country needed youth to operate its factories, consume what they churned out and constitute a fighting force in times of war. That became less true over the 20th century, and in the 21st it bears very little relation to reality."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/08/why-declining-birth-rates-are-good-news-for-life-on-earth


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Title: Re: Why declining birth rates are good news for life on Earth
Post by: ergophobe on July 09, 2021, 12:06:25 AM

But I still need them to work and pay my social security benefits. If not for people like littleman having four kids, I'd have to work several additional years ;-)