Yesterday I was told that China’s one child per family policy was what the world needed to save itself from the imminent fiery death of anthropogenic global warming.
Yesterday I was told that while China may through anything and everything into its waters, the one child policy made it “the world’s leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation.”
Today, I’m told China is rethinking the whole forced abortion, one child or else policy:
More than 30 years after China’s one-child policy was introduced, creating two generations of notoriously chubby, spoiled only children affectionately nicknamed “little emperors,” a population crisis is looming in the country.
The average birthrate has plummeted to 1.8 children per couple as compared with six when the policy went into effect, according to the U.N. Population Division, while the number of residents 60 and older is predicted to explode from 16.7 percent of the population in 2020 to 31.1 percent by 2050. That is far above the global average of about 20 percent.
The imbalance is worse in wealthy coastal cities with highly educated populations, such as Shanghai. Last year, people 60 and older accounted for almost 22 percent of Shanghai’s registered residents, while the birthrate was less than one child per couple.
Now the are looking at a China filled with spoiled men, few women and a lack of personnel to fill jobs and they open. What to do?
Well, time to get it on:
In recent years, population officials have gradually softened their stance on the one-child policy. In 2004, they allowed for more exceptions to the rule — including urban residents, members of ethnic minorities and cases in which both husband and wife are only children — and in 2007, they toned down many of their hard-line slogans.
Qiao Xiaochun, a professor at the Institute of Population Research at Peking University, said central government officials have recently been debating even more radical changes, such as allowing couples to have two children if one partner is an only child.
In July, Shanghai became the first Chinese city to launch an aggressive campaign to encourage more births.
But, but, but…the environment!
The communists have no idea how they are disturbing the plans of the Eco-Marxists with this thinking.
Hat Tip: Instapundit
