As I mentioned before I do think the fact that France was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and that it is consistently one of the highest TFR European countries post-war (and not due to immigrants) are not unrelated things.
I think of your "age of malthusian industrialism" series often these days. Predicted the rising French fertility and falling African fertility both. Well done! This is an earlier turnaround for France than I expected to see, though.
Smaller populations will help humanity win the battle against life threatening climate disaster and help save the other species we share the planet with by protecting their shrinking habitat.
Robots equipped with artificial general intelligence will wipe our aging asses and grow and prepare our food. Young people will have less competition for jobs so their wages will rise and with less demand for housing the cost of the existing housing stock will become more affordable. Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman recently looked at low birth rate Japan and penned an amazingly optimistic report on its economic conditions. "In some ways, Japan, rather than being a cautionary tale, is a kind of role model - an example of how to manage difficult demography while remaining prosperous and socially stable.
As I mentioned before I do think the fact that France was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and that it is consistently one of the highest TFR European countries post-war (and not due to immigrants) are not unrelated things.
I think of your "age of malthusian industrialism" series often these days. Predicted the rising French fertility and falling African fertility both. Well done! This is an earlier turnaround for France than I expected to see, though.
Smaller populations will help humanity win the battle against life threatening climate disaster and help save the other species we share the planet with by protecting their shrinking habitat.
Robots equipped with artificial general intelligence will wipe our aging asses and grow and prepare our food. Young people will have less competition for jobs so their wages will rise and with less demand for housing the cost of the existing housing stock will become more affordable. Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman recently looked at low birth rate Japan and penned an amazingly optimistic report on its economic conditions. "In some ways, Japan, rather than being a cautionary tale, is a kind of role model - an example of how to manage difficult demography while remaining prosperous and socially stable.