That's insane to write so many words for a theory so easily proved wrong. He shows that France was already transitioning from high to low fertility rate by 1800

That's insane to write so many words for a theory so easily proved wrong. He shows that France was already transitioning from high to low fertility rate by 1800 despite artificial lighting being incredibly rare (90% of the population was rural). The same source shows that Germany and England started their demographic transition end of the 19th century despite being more urbanised. The effect should be bigger in northern countries than in the southern countries but Norway, Denmark and Sweden started also their transition at the end of the century, and today they have a greater fertility rate than Spain, Italy or Greece