Fertility Collapse—Minorities Hardest Hit! Electing A New People Delayed?
20th May 2018
John Derbyshire does the numbers.
One of the perennial errors that sky-is-falling alarmists almost always stumble into is thinking that the way things are right now will not change as time moves forward. Like the ‘climate change’ people, last century’s Malthusians (such as, famously, Paul Erlich) didn’t realize that as industrialization spread having children (outside of the Underclass) would change from being an asset to being a luxury. Mostly, what we have learned from history about ‘if this goes on…’ scenarios is that it won’t.