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The bogus baby bust nightmare

A declining population doesn't automatically result in declining prosperity. Even the Black Death had a silver lining.
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    We could eat the poor, or burn them for fuel

    Why let nature take its own slow course when we could prod it along, a little. Nobody said saving the polar bears was going to be easy.

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