Wrong, Again

The scaremongerers were wrong, again.

"Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world’s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water? Its fuse has by no means been plucked. But over the last three decades, much of its Malthusian detonation power has leaked out.

Birthrates in developed countries from Italy to Korea have sunk below the levels needed for their populations to replace themselves; the typical age of marriage and pregnancy has risen, and the use of birth control has soared beyond the dreams of Margaret Sanger and the nightmares of the Vatican."

“Demographic ‘Bomb’ May Only Go ‘Pop!’." Taken from The New York Times.

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