For what it's worth, the Live Earth crowd in Texas (pretty much all
white boomer types) is pretty worked up about population issues. Local
anecdotes abound about population pressures in Mexico spilling into
Texas, and many felt a need to close the border to close the feedback
loop and keep the pressure where it belongs.
Regardless of how you feel about that, the feeling was widespread that
fertility impacts prosperity; I mentioned that the conventional
demographic wisdom had it the other way around but nobody found that
very compelling.
If that is wrong, at least the demographers ought to be speaking up
with some correctives. Admittedly the southwestern states are in a
more or less unique position globally, in that a very rich country
borders directly on a very poor one.
Another spooky anecdote I hear from a long-time Texan: apparently (and
anecdotally) some religious groups in the US are being encouraged to
maximize their fertility to prepare for a great crusade against
godlessness and/or Islam. I don't know how widespread this is but it
terrifies me and not because I am Muslim or even godless.
mt
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