I'm quite tired of this topic being brought up all the time. What's the solution? We've seen that economic incentives won't do, so what? Force women to have children? Punish celibates? Let's not kid ourselves (pun intended), the "solutions" to this "crisis" are worse than the outcome.

Look on the bright side, a declining demography makes human activity that much more sustainable, and maybe our descendants won't even have to worry about restricting their carbon emissions to keep the planet inhabitable.

In the meantime, we'll have to take a cut to our way of life, which I can live with. We don't need to travel to the other side of the globe yearly, we don't need three cars per household, etc.

It's quite telling that the people most concerned with this usually self-label as "pro-markets libertarians". Is market health more important than bodily autonomy? What happened to freedom?