Fortune Magazine carries an excellent review of the implications of the world's demographic trend toward below—replacement fertility levels. Not just the usual suspects in the developed world, but also still—poor nations such as Mexico, are to experience the historic transition toward zero (and below) population growth.

The article concludes that in the future, the world may be populated by the children of those who believe in a divine injunction to have children. To the Fortune editors, this implies a grim future of fundamentalism, and possibly even a new Dark Age.  They ought to get out more. Maybe a trip to Utah, for instance.

Posted by Thomas  04 10 04