@Aldo2 End women’s rights
@frost while they were higher in the past, American birth-rates were still steadily dropping year after year, even as far back as the 1800's (the birth rate in 1900 was almost half that of 1800).
Looking to the past to address current problems will most likely lead to people repeating the same past mistakes all over again ("we learn from history that we do not learn from history").
@frost I just did some more reading, and it's essentially the same across the board (I've looked at France, Spain, the UK, Italy, Germany and NL).
There may be some small spikes here and there but the trend is still unquestionably downwards.
It's like a bouncy ball.
The crazy thing is, this trend appears to be global. Even "developing nations" are experiencing a decline in their fertility-rates. The fertility-rate of Yemen (once the highest fertility-rate on the planet, and one of the world's poorest nations) is dropping like a stone.
We are definitely living in interesting times...
@Aldo2 Look 100-200 years to the past. The situation demands undoing what we screwed up more so than grasping for solutions. We all already know what works and what does not