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In reply to the discussion: America's Baby Bust. The nation's falling fertility rate is the root cause [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)6. Birthrates fall *because of* improving standard of living.
That fact must cause nontrivial cognitive dissonance in some circles.
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DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
OP
"First, global population growth is slowing to a halt and will begin to shrink within 60 years. "
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#1
If you read the article you'll see many like myself are choosing to participate in voluntary populat
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#3
Thank God for that!!! Maybe people wilkl lear to enjou what they have and leave others' stuff alon
kelliekat44
Feb 2013
#24
Absolutely, Cleita. Keeping women illiterate and enslaved ensures the baby machinery
Hekate
Feb 2013
#25
It's absolutely disgusting. That's what many conservatives refer to them as.
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#5
Here, read this. It's a very popular term. I put it in quotation because it's NOT my thoughts
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#11
What ever. I'd rather know what's really going on out there. Living in a bubble pretending it's
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#14
The problem is that birthrates of the USA's nearest neighbors are dropping below the
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#33
"If we want to continue leading the world, we simply must figure out a way to have more babies"
arcane1
Feb 2013
#10
Sorry, but America's environment hasn't gotten much cleaner, at least in regards to fertility,
MadHound
Feb 2013
#20
"The comfort of the rich depend on an unlimited supply of the poor." Voltaire
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#28
The RW's obsession with the right people reproducing is racist bullshit and it doesn't belong here.
LeftyMom
Feb 2013
#30
This tripe is from the Wall Street Journal (aka the Murdoch Street Journal).
madinmaryland
Feb 2013
#36
Children cost on the order of $300,000 each to raise and educate -- and they are a bad investment.
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#41
Ridiculous drivel from the corporate right wing. First they scream that there are shortages, high
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#42
You realise the article you call "very good" is blaming you for the American decline, don't you?
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2013
#43