The future is bleak, but it's not what you think. Birth control and education are like a virus that impacts fertility. Over time we will adapt. It used to the

The future is bleak, but it's not what you think. Birth control and education are like a virus that impacts fertility. Over time we will adapt. It used to the sex drive was enough to reproduce, in the future the specific desire to HAVE kids will replace that. So the population will drop, then slowly turn around, but it will not end up in a balance. What you'll have is wealthy educated citizens of liberal democracies who absolutely have got have lots of kids. We better have colonized space then.