NOTE: I am a putting on my futurist hat, and making predictions based on current trends. I do not want these ideas to happen. GDP is evil and capitalism will fail… There is a trending opinipon and totally due to the racism of Donald Trump: the only good immigrants are white. Combine that with the …
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721 Schools Close in Greece
Greece currently has a fertility rate of only 1.3, and the effects are already kicking in. This year more than 700 schools (out of 13,000 total) will close because they do not have 15 students to remain viable. To be fair, the minimum student requirement has been rising, meaning the huge numbers are a bit …
Nagi, Japan – Baby Making Town
The WSJ reports on a town in Japan that is bucking the trend, and easily have fertility above the replacement rate. What is their secret? The fertility rate reached 2.95 in 2019, and has slipped back to what is still a very commendable 2.68 in 2021, a pandemic year. Japan as a whole is a …
Elon Musk and Population Decline
Mr Musk is of course wrong and over-reacting to peak population predictions. He has it in his head that we will stop making babies altogether and go extinct, which is ludicrous. If his intention was to get the general problem noticed, he actually made things worse. The media reached out to academics who take the …