tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post2830114263311533704..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Historic Low. Are Some Demographers Freaking Out??Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-34447954064709020452017-07-01T21:02:10.395-04:002017-07-01T21:02:10.395-04:00Um. It's totalitarian all right. But it's ...Um. It's totalitarian all right. But it's not Bullshit. China is having huge problems with desertification and pollution. Overpopulation is a genuine national security problem there. The One Child rule may have been brutal, and certainly may have been a bad decision. But it's not "bullshit."Pete Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675790226494153847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-32826059122206276622017-06-30T11:07:10.210-04:002017-06-30T11:07:10.210-04:00Yeah, such a policy is totalitarian bullshit. And ...Yeah, such a policy is totalitarian bullshit. And I do realize that it'll cause problems--but the population simply cannot grow forever. We've got to figure out something, because that's a fact that is extraordinarily unlikely to change, even with super-science-fiction-y space travel.Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-45414589541478144692017-06-30T10:43:37.019-04:002017-06-30T10:43:37.019-04:00I debated not getting into this one. But China has...I debated not getting into this one. But China has now revised its 1-child policy to 2-child policy. They were getting into a situation where there were not enough working people to support the rest of the family (parents, grandparents, etc). One person might be responsible for two generations (plus their own spouse and child but the spouse would also be working, and their family...). Plus, of Aahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045786882607525394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-6912642606643299792017-06-30T09:14:08.227-04:002017-06-30T09:14:08.227-04:00Oh yeah, you're right...that does seem weird.....Oh yeah, you're right...that does seem weird... I didn't even notice that.Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-66588392056141771402017-06-30T09:13:00.436-04:002017-06-30T09:13:00.436-04:00That seems like it shouldn't be described as &...That seems like it shouldn't be described as "fertility rate" but "birth rate."<br /><br />I was expecting the former, and expecting that the fact that we're horrifically unhealthy was contributing, but it seems the claim is really that more people now <i>aren't</i> having babies, not that more people now are <i>incapable</i> of having babies (i.e. infertile).The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.com