> If you wanted to dial-down our incessant breeding without getting lynched, how would you do it? Dialing it down is easy. Dialing it back up is impossible. Th

> If you wanted to dial-down our incessant breeding without getting lynched, how would you do it? Dialing it down is easy. Dialing it back up is impossible. The Chinese successfully dialed fertility down to 1.0 (officially, unofficially far lower), but try as they might they cannot make it move back up above that. China is doomed, even if that doom lies centuries off. Other places didn't even have to try. Breeding has been dialed down far below the replacement rate, and many other nations are on the road to extinction. India has likely sunk below replacement fertility, or will in the next year or two. Only a few nations in central Africa have above-replacement fertility. > There is a taboo against constraining reproduction. Legally, medically or whatever. I've never personally seen evidence of such a taboo in the western hemisphere. Even in the United States. Instead, a few years ago, we had media talking head saying how the law should do something about the Octomom, that it "wasn't right". We live in the "shout your abortion" era. We're seeing the rise of the r/childfree culture. Constraining reproduction isn't taboo, it's celebrated. We live in a dying civilization hellbent on committing collective suicide.