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miércoles, 26 de diciembre de 2012

Smaller families, more adults living with roommates instead of with families, more loneliness.


Three vignettes about Christmas and the Demographic Winter
Demographic Winter: The increased standard of living associated with lower fertility is short-lived. The next generation facing population decline may face lowered economic growth and lower standards of living.

  • We Baby Boomers rationalized having fewer kids by saying we were Saving the Earth.  
  • As luck would have it, our ecological religion of smaller families allowed us higher incomes and consumption than we could have had any other way.
  • But we didn’t think through the human reality of that trade-off. 


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