A precious few countries have managed a high degree of development while simultaneously avoiding a collapse in birth rates. It is . . . a painfully short list: the United States, France, Argentina, Sweden, and New Zealand. And . . . that’s it. Even if politics aligned, even if everyone’s hearts were in the right place, even if all the Americans and French and Argentines and Swedes and Kiwis wanted to put the rest of the world’s needs in front of their own, the sheer scale of humanity’s demographic turning means all of them combined would not comprise nearly enough of a foundation to support a
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