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There's no reason to assume lower birth rates would continue all the way to extinction. Even if they don't rise again naturally, they could be raised through ex
by rbecker 6y ago
There's no reason to assume lower birth rates would continue all the way to extinction. Even if they don't rise again naturally, they could be raised through explicit policy. In either case, we're a long way from having to worry about extinction due to low birth rates.
- skissane 6y agoConservative religious minorities (such as Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jews) manage to maintain big family sizes and retain 80%+ of their kids in the parents’ religion. They are small minorities now, but give it a couple of centuries and they may grow to become the majority of the population. A future dominated by religious conservativism is not the future for which many hope or expect