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Cliff Dore's avatar

“ I fear that the sort of thoughtful dispassionate analysis that I am good at is quite inadequate to this problem.”

I love that. Do I have your permission to use it for my epitaph?

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R.W. Richey's avatar

"I now see that the joke is on me." Kudos being willing to admit your error.

I wonder how a sharp increase in the amount of disorder, conflict and war would affect things? My sense is that war has a positive effect on both birth rates and innovation. Of course war waged with modern weapons, particularly nukes, as a negative effect on a whole host of other things which might very well swamp any of the previously mentioned benefits.

Tracking Ukraine's demographic trends could be instructive.

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