Re: "Electrify" Old Cars? Why?

Posted by TxGoat On 2023/7/24 14:03:42

Overpopulation, not prosperity, is the problem. Indeed, general prosperity lowers birth rates, except where idiotic policy interferes, such as in the USA and Western Europe.

Until recent decades, overpopulation was an isolated and local problem. That's becoming less true as the global population grows.

Happily, in "Western Industrialized Societies", birth rates are trending downward, sometimes, as in the case of Japan and Germany, alarmingly so.

It seems that prosperous people are neither motivated to have large numbers of children, nor helpless to avoid it.


I don't think goverment has any business trying to regulate any couple's choices related to how many children they wish to have.

Popular prosperity and applied common sense seems to do a good job of that.

It's also worth remembering that we're all mortal, and that the break-even reproductive rate is somewhere around 3 children per couple. It's certainly more than 2.