Billionaire iconoclast Elon Musk had it right when he told a Wall Street Journal forum last week: “One of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and rapidly declining birthrate.”
Between now and the end of the century, declining fertility (or Demographic Winter) will have an impact few can imagine.
What does Russia want with Ukraine? Most would say to keep NATO off its southern border or for the nation’s rich natural resources. That’s true, in part. But there’s a very big something else.
