| OMG! America is under attack by birth control pills! Yes, women in the US freely choosing to use birth control is just like forced abortions and house raids in China. "The root cause of most of our problems is our declining fertility rate." Global warming, terrorism, droughts, hurricanes... all caused by birth control pills. "The replacement rate is 2.1. If the average woman has more children than that, population grows. Fewer, and it contracts. Today, America's total fertility rate is 1.93... it hasn't been above the replacement rate in a sustained way since the early 1970s." Let's just ignore the immigration from countries with replacement rates far above 2.1 that has increased the US population by 100 million since the early 70s. "First, global population growth is slowing to a halt and will begin to shrink within 60 years." Overpopulation isn't a problem because the spread of birth control and women's rights will solve the problem in 60 years. So let's block birth control and women's rights. "...growing populations lead to increased innovation and conservation." Horrible droughts lead to increased innovation and conservation of water. Yay horrible droughts! |