A Flurry of Ideas to Reverse China’s Declining Birthrate, but Will Beijing Listen?
Cannot China, cannot the world, do without constant population growth?
If not, Soylent Green is coming.
For more than three decades, China enforced its “one child” policy harshly, imposing fines and in some cases abortions and sterilizations.
The government only relented in 2016 after experts anticipated the demographic issues that the country is now facing.
Virtually all families can now have two children, but the anticipated baby boom did not materialize.
In the last two years, births have dropped precipitously, falling by 12 percent in 2018.
The trend has prompted increasingly dire warnings that China faces a graying population and a dwindling work force to support it in the decades ahead.
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