« JI find little reason for optimism when I look ahead. Europeans are committing suicide through declining birth rates. People whose generations do not reproduce are condemned to aging and, at the same time, threatened by a state of mind of abdication, of “end of the century”,” writes Raymond Aron in his Memoirs. These premonitory sentences, written at the beginning of the 1980s, are cited in a fascinating book on the trap of a falling birth rate, The empty swings (Observatory editions).
Its author, the economist Maxime Sbaihi, analyzes the terrible spiral which threatens – or which has already reached, in the case of South Korea for example – countries which are experiencing a lasting decline in fertility. France has long believed itself to be safe from this phenomenon…
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