Violence from the left happens everyday, this is mind-bendingly ignorant
This story about the catastrophic errors made in the mathematical modeling of the one child policy in China during the 1970s offers a frightening view of whsat the climate models may be pushing the world into in the 2000s.
A missile scientist used mathematical models to push the nation’s one-child policy. Its legacy is proving hard to shake.
Four decades later, China is aging much earlier in its development than other major economies did. The shift to fewer births and more elderly citizens threatens to hold back economic growth. In a generation that grew up without siblings, young women are increasingly reluctant to have children—and there are fewer of them every year. Beijing is at a loss to change the mindset brought about by the policy.
China’s fertility rate is approaching one birth for every woman, less than half the 2.1 replacement rate that keeps a population stable. In the late 1970s, the fertility rate hovered around 3.
At the time, China was coming out of the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and about to embark on economic reforms. The country’s leader, Deng Xiaoping, and other officials became alarmed when a group of scientists told them that unless they started restricting births, China would have more than four billion mouths to feed in a hundred years.
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