A recent article in The New York Times, “Long Slide Looms for World Population, with Sweeping Ramifications”, would seem to indicate that concern about falling fertility has finally gone mainstream. We have a looming global fertility crisis.
The popular view is that China is the coming superpower and that the United States is a nation in decline. However, The New York Times warns that, among other challenges, “the ageing demographics of China, casts a sobering picture for the future of …