COVER STORY / POPULATION: The philosophical roots of ‘Demographic Winter’*

Many years ago, economist Richard M. Weaver wrote a book with a title both prosaic and profound, Ideas Have Consequences.Those three words hold the key to understanding all of the social trends and political movements that confound us. Nothing happens in a vacuum. In human experience, nothing occurs spontaneously or haphazardly. For every effect there is a cause.Demographic Winter didn’t just happen. Rather it is the culmination of societal acceptance of highly dubious ideas and policies.The Jap…

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