Paying for people — or not

In Japan, the government wants to pay you to have a baby, so dire is the population crisis there. Japan has one of the world’s lowest birth rates and a nation with no young people is a drag on the world’s second largest economy. What to do? A proposed plan would pay parents $3,400 a …

More TV equals fewer babies?

How to solve India’s population problem: Supply every village with electricity so that every villager will watch more television late at night and have less sex. Huh? This is the brainchild of India’s new health and welfare minister. Let’s all think about this one for a minute. I know firsthand how overpopulation can ruin good …

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