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This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at bill whittle.com.

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

And gentlemen, this is the problem here.

There's a headline in, I believe this was the New York Times, maybe Wall Street Journal.

Suddenly, there aren't enough babies.

The whole world is alarmed.

This was the journal, I think.

The birth rate worldwide is very close to slipping below the replacement rate.

In other words, population, which we were told in the

1970s was going to explode and make the planet unlivable because we'd all be shoulder to

shoulder and we wouldn't be able to support ourselves. Now is expected to drop off substantially

from previous projections. And the United States is already below replacement rate.

South Korea is below replacement rate. But overall, the whole globe, including, this is including

places like India and Africa, like the nations of Africa. We went from in the 1950s, the United

Nations estimate of live births per woman was 4.86. It is now in 2021. It was 2.32.

And so you say, well, what's the big deal about that, Steve Green? I mean, after all, people are

working two jobs. They're busy. They don't have time to have kids. Kids are expensive,

blah, blah, blah. Actually, as it turns out, kids are no more expensive today than they've ever been.

But Steve, let me just give you a short list of some of the problems caused by not enough babies.

Labor shortages, shortages of funding for government programs like health care and retirement for aging Americans, a decrease in GDP, both nationally and globally, reduced funding for school districts, difficulty filling college classrooms, and therefore maintaining universities themselves, stagnating property values as demand decreases. And Steve, I know this sounds so strange to say, but really the best thing that young people could do

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