GLOBAL BABY BUST UPDATE: What Is Causing This? “Demographic Winter Is Coming” As Fertility Rates Plummet All Over The Globe. “There are about 8 billion people living on our planet today. But it won’t stay that way for long.”

The ruling class wants it this way, but they don’t have our best interests at heart.

Flashback: ‘The Population Bomb’ was wrong: The world now struggling to make more babies.

Plus: The Global Fertility Collapse.

2006 flashback: The Parent Trap.

Related: Montesquieu’s Warning About Our Childlessness.

Also: car seats as contraception: “Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points. Consistent with a causal channel, this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied). We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.”

And: How China’s baby bust can help birth a second American Century.