Re: "If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement." That's because budgets etc. assum

Re: "If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement." That's because budgets etc. assume population growth out of institutional habit. If population stops growing, then the usual assumptions and habits of governing shaped by past patterns are suddenly "wrong". Also known as "poor planning".