I miss the 1970’s when it was global cooling and overpopulation that were the big problems...
As for the effects of below-replacement birth rates over the long term, there is no denying the catastrophic results upon a society. First, the modern welfare state cannot sustain itself without successively larger populations to pay increasing benefits of aging former workers. Second, declining populations require massive immigration to supply new workers as older natives retire -- artificial replacements for the never-born. Even the continuation of economic activity becomes dependent upon fresh supplies of new immigrants. When these immigrants come from alien cultures and refuse to assimilate with their vanishing hosts, inevitable upheavals lie ahead.
Once a demographic tipping point is reached -- when a population ages without replacement -- the math begins to work very swiftly. Any corrective reversal will take decades -- decades during which stronger and growing societies can sieze economic and military advantage. There can be no stability in the face of continuous population decline.
PING for the Freeriders list.
Al Mohler blogged on a recent article in Foreign Policy, which is hardly a right wing religious group. The title of the article is "Why Men Rule--and Conservatives Will Inherit the Earth". The conclusion? Patriarchy will save our culture. Worth reading.
As far as the posted article goes, I think some feminist somewhere finally got around to reading "America Alone".
I will make one other point. The importance of left wing indoctrination in the public schools becomes clear in light of the lack of replacement-level birth rates among Liberals. Instead of birthing their legacy, they indoctrinate them.