FROM OUR DEMOGRAPHY DESK

“CHILDREN ARE A woman’s choice, and they’re increasingly choosing not to have them in the western world. It will prove a costly decision.”

Professor Germaine Pyll, who specializes in trade-off economics, went on to say that what is happening is what she calls the “pointed end of individual self-determination and social freedom. All western society wants. As they say, beware of what you seek, you make get it one day.

“The essential truth to reproducing life, is that it is required to reproduce. It’s the only way to ensure that our species continues. Prosperity has somewhat blinded many of us to that basic fact. It only takes a single generation to fail to reproduce and it’s adios to the human race. That’s how thin the thread holding us, is. Can you imagine if the oxygen in the air was declining at the same rate as live births in the western world?

“As I always say: No pressure.”