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'Remarkable' Decline in Fertility Rates

posted by mrpg on Friday November 16 2018, @02:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-so-many-men-are-having-children-either dept.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Bytram:

'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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @03:02PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @03:02PM (#762709)

    I'm always amused by these "the world is not overpopulated because if you look at people per square mile there is plenty of room". But yours surpasses all previous, thanks, made my day :)

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 16 2018, @04:04PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday November 16 2018, @04:04PM (#762722) Journal

    Instead of giving everyone a plot of land, stuff them in an arcology.

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday November 16 2018, @06:14PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 16 2018, @06:14PM (#762773) Journal

      I don't think we can yet build a real archology. We're getting closer, if you don't care about livability, but without that "stuff them in" is the correct description. How, for instance, do you ensure a trustworthy governance? Consider Brasilia. I don't know what it's like now, but for a long time it was a place nobody wanted to live.

      Artificial environments are tricky. I agree that we should be building them, but we should acknowledge from the start that each one is an experiment.

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