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 …
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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 …