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60 percent of Americans can’t afford a basic quality of life. People are having less kids because of their economics globally. The existing system is the forcing function.

https://www.unfpa.org/news/fertility-fallacy-five-things-you...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynq459wxgo

This is before climate impact accelerates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

https://www.weforum.org/press/2024/01/wef24-climate-crisis-h...

Living standards won’t increase because demographic dividends from growing working age populations is over, and total fertility rates are rapidly declining globally.

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-dep...

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/spring/summer-2018/demogra...



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