The Inadvertent One Child Policy in Rich Countries
Larger families are de facto legally banned from most cities. The harm this is about to cause the entire industrialized world is immense. But it’s fixable.
NOTE: Elon Musk has been talking about the disaster of depopulation for several years, as I have been for two decades. The consequences of the “population explosion” turned out to be massively positive — particularly for increasing the division of labor and thus per capita wealth — while the predicted harms did not materialize (e.g., we now feed billions more people using just 1/3 of the land area for farming).
By contrast, population loss in Japan has produced what we now call “The Lost Generation”. It turns out that the Creation Mandate (Gen. 2:26-28) was the right path after all.
But you don’t have to have something as evil as China’s One Child Policy to hamstring your society. Daniel Hess here explains one way we are needlessly torpedoing ourselves. — RDM
by Daniel Hess
January 15, 2025
In a recent article, I presented a lot of evidence that high urban density lowers fertility.
Some smart people questioned the strength of the relationship and particularly the causality.1 How about this…
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