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on Friday November 16 2018, @02:15AM
from the not-so-many-men-are-having-children-either dept.
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'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers.
Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a "baby bust" - meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size.
The researchers said the findings were a "huge surprise".
And there would be profound consequences for societies with "more grandparents than grandchildren".
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'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 16 2018, @04:59AM (5 children)
That doesn't fit the narrative that guy wants, though. He wants, nay, *needs* for there to be an exponentially-growing horde of savage camel-raping clove-chewing Mahometans with their turbans and curvy swords come to ravish his wimminz!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @06:53AM
What other explanation is there for the decline in major Muslim countries' fertility? 'Cause I'm not hearing news of any explosion in the camel population.
Maaaaybe in outback Australia [wikipedia.org], you reckon we'll find those savage hordes busy there?
(Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Friday November 16 2018, @10:12AM (2 children)
The technical term for it is "White Genocide Conspiracy Theory". It's totally bizarre stuff, basically the early-1900s eugenics nonsense updated for the current century. I never thought I'd encounter that one again, but it really seems to have bounced back from the dead in the last five years or so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @01:22PM
There are a lot of people pushing for eugenics on environmentalist subs over on reddit. It seems to be a growing trend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @05:48PM
Oh sure, "totally bizarre". As the propaganda networks globally brainwash all non whites (people of color) to ally and blame everything on whitey while sending NGO boats to bring in more rabid non whites, all while brainwashing naive whites into blaming themselves and teaching them to suck up to any non white for their "white privilege". Even the name Aryan is taught in US schools as a race made up by delusional nazis and just using the name of your (fictitious, evidently) race automatically makes you a thought criminal and "hater". Are you fucking blind?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @03:17AM
Thank you, Azuma, for your query. My 'narrative' is based on what I see in the world around me. I do not count how many muslim females I have seen with three to seven children around her. There is no point. This is what population statistics are for.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=muslim+fertility+rate [wolframalpha.com]
Niger 7.2 children per female
Somalia 6.2 children per female
Congo 6.1 children per female
Mali 6.0 children per female
Chad 5.9 children per female