From Budapest with Love – Fixing Fertility

We need more babies. The recently reported fertility for the United States is at a historical low. Australia’s fertility rate sits at 1.6 children per woman. The most alarming stories spring from northern Asia. Japan’s fertility rate is so low that villages are disappearing. Across the Sea of Japan, South Korean women are having, on average, less than one child across their lifetime.

Since Thomas Malthus propagated his “tragedy of the commons” theory at the end of the eighteenth century, those of a conservationist frame of mind have argued that birth rates are too high for our planet to ecologically sustain human life. There are, it is often said, too many people. But the tide is turning.

Mainstream news and current affairs outlets, like the Economist, National Geographic, and CNN, usually mouthpieces for population alarmism, have been reporting that population decline is all but inevitable. By the seventh decade of this century, we can expect the population to peak and…