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Britain is running out of babies

Paul Morland's No One Left

Morland is the author of three works on the history and future of global demography, but his latest is more of a call to arms, arguing that falling birth rates present a crisis which needs to be addressed by urgent cultural change. South America has seen a sudden drop in just the past five years, while the United States, that vast open space filled with wealth, opportunity and optimism, and which at the start of the century was seen as demographically strong in comparison to an enfeebled Europe, is enduring the same problem. Then there is climate change, which is a particular concern for younger people: some 96% surveyed said that worries about the earth’s future will influence their fertility decisions, among the famous examples being Prince Harry and Meghan, who stopped at two for the sake of the planet.

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