A World Without Babies

Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The most private choice we make has potent public consequences.
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This piece has been republished with permission from Discourse:
When future historians look back on the last half century, I suspect they will pass over war, terror, and populism to settle on infertility as the decisive event of the age. For the first time since the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century, the world’s human population is about to shrink…
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