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» As the World Turns
   "The remarkable particulars of today's global march toward smaller family size fly in the face of many prevailing assumptions about when rapid fertility decline can, and cannot, occur."[Australia News Weekly]
   http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2001apr7_world.html

» Baby bonus signals sea-change in family policy
   "A funny thing happened along the way to the Federal Election - commentators began to wake up to what is arguably the most pressing social and economic problem facing Australia. When John Howard announced his innovative, though modest, incentive for mothe
   http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2001nov17_babies.html

» Burying The Big Population Story
   "And here's the overwhelming demographic story of our time: Never have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, all over the world, yielding populations in decline. That story was buried by the noise of "the population explos
   http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/wattenberg031201.asp

» Climate Change Linked to Civilization Collapse
   National Geographic News story about the hypothesis that past climate variations led to the collapse of civilizations, with speculation on the implications for our society's future.
   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0227_climate4.html

» Eastern European population to plummet
   Population levels in former communist countries are diving because of economic decline, the UN says. [BBC News]
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/734123.stm

» Experts wrangle over birth dearth
   "In fact, no major industrialized country has a fertility rate above 2.1, known as the replacement rate because it is the number of children per woman at which a population replaces itself. The average fertility rate in Europe is 1.45, a rate that could l
   http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3072271/

» Falling fertility debate reignited
   "One issue most of the main players in the debate can agree on is the decline in Australian - and Western - fertility rates. There is agreement not only that the decline exists, but that it represents a major problem in need of urgent correction." [News W
   http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2001jul14_family.html

» How do we tackle Europe's population problem?
   BBC Talking point on the subject. Quotes a russian as saying "So, what is there to do? Nothing - we just have to accept that our civilisation is going to die out "
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/debates/european/1118245.stm

» How the West was lost
   Discussion with Pat Buchanan on "Death of the West". [WorldNetDaily]
   http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25797

» Low Fertility Not Politically Sustainable
   While for many countries concerns about high birth rates persist, for many other countries the problem now is very low rates of birth. [Population Today]
   http://www.prb.org/Articles/2001/LowFertilityNotPoliticallySustainable.aspx

» NewsMax - Resurrection of the West
   Discussion of the ramification of the book "Death of the West" by Patrick Buchanan.
   http://archive.newsmax.com/commentmax/get.pl?a=2002/1/7/022013

» PBS: The Grandchild Gap
   "If Italy's fertility will remain at the same level for thirty to forty years, the Italian population will be reduced by one-third."
   http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/grand_special.html

» Russia struggles with population crisis
   Russia faces a demographic crisis unprecedented in peacetime - violence, alcohol and poor healthcare are among the reasons. [BBC News]
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1098812.stm

» Russia's Modest Migration Gains Unlikely to Stop Population Decline
   Discusses some of the issues surrounding the population fall in Russia. [Population Today] (May 1, 2001)
   http://www.prb.org/Articles/2001/RussiasModestMigrationGainsUnlikelytoStopPopulationDecline.aspx

» Russian population in steep decline
   Disease, drug abuse, poverty and depression cause a sharp fall in Russia's population.[BBC News]
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/988723.stm

» Scotland's population set to fall
   New figures predict that Scotland's population will drop over the next 25 years. [BBC News]
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1149059.stm

» Slow Death in the Great Plains
   "A sizable swathe of the country's heartland is undergoing a severe drop in births that, if it continues, could empty many small towns in just one generation." [Atlantic Monthly] (July 1, 1997)
   http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jun/populat.htm

» The Demographic Bomb
   Article describes Arabic views about how the decrease in birth rates in the west will change the population demographics in the area of religious affiliations, especially Islam. Includes an opinion of some the causes of the lower birth rate.
   http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaggieGallagher/2001/10/17/the_demographic_bomb

» The Plot Thins
   Testimony by Ben J. Wattenburg before the US House Ways and Means Committee. Discusses the phenomena of reducing population rates in many developed countries around the world, especially Europe and Japan.
   http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.foreign,pubID.14366/pub_detail.asp

» The Population Surprise
   The old assumptions about world population trends need to be rethought. One thing is clear, in the next century the world is in for some rapid downsizing [Atlantic Monthly]
   http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99aug/9908popdrop.htm

» The myth of over-population
   "The Japanese island of Oshima is giving us an inkling of what the future may be like. Children are so rare that an old people's home set up dummies of a little boy ... Many schools are empty as there are so few children. As people die, houses are abandon
   http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0500overpopulation.htm