Overview
For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet thatās busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.
Itās all bunk. The āpopulation bombā never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, weāve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The worldās population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, itās already started. Japan, for instance, will be half its current size by the end of the century. In Italy, there are already more deaths than births every year. Chinaās One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men, not enough young people to support the countryās elderly, and an impending population contraction that has the ruling class terrified.
And all of this is coming to America, too. In fact, itās already here. Middle-class Americans have their own, informal one-child policy these days. And an alarming number of upscale professionals donāt even go that farāthey have dogs, not kids. In fact, if it werenāt for the wave of immigration we experienced over the last thirty years, the United States would be on the verge of shrinking, too.
What happened? Everything about modern lifeāfrom Bugaboo strollers to insane college tuition to government regulationsāhas pushed Americans in a single direction, making it harder to have children. And making the people who do still want to have children feel like second-class citizens.
What to Expect When No Oneās Expecting explains why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the economy, and politics both at home and around the world.
Because if America wants to continue to lead the world, we need to have more babies.
This book title, What to Expect When No One's Expecting (America's Coming Demographic Disaster), ISBN: 9781594037313, by Jonathan V. Last, published by Encounter Books (June 10, 2014) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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