The Perils of Low Western Fertility Rates (and 3 solutions)
When you really take the time to observe the discourse regarding the trajectory of humankind, the hysteria which pervades the secular world may seem to have some initial validity. After all, we are told that resources have global scarcity, and that we directly imperil humanity by continuing to recklessly reproduce. We are inherently inclined to exhibit sympathy for such hyperbole, because if true, the externalities of overpopulation can presumably produce an apocalyptic global circumstance with the capacity to diminish our civilization to a bleak primitivism. However, these life-threatening predictions fall upon skeptical ears. The secular left has an extraordinarily low batting average on big issues, and we know that their most effective modus operandi is hysteria and hyperbole. Left-wing environmental hysterics have every incentive to raise the stakes artificially high ...