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#514 - Peter Zeihan - The Old World Order Is About To Collapse
Modern Wisdom
Urbanization and Women's Rights Cause a Reduced Birth Rate
When you move off the farm, kids are no longer free labor. You have fewer of them. When you urbanize, when you have electricity, you've generated time. And so people can do things after sunset. This is important for everything in terms of economic development but it's most important for women. The entire women's right movement is basically linked indelibly to electricity. Once you have it, women have fewer kids because they now have other things going on in their lives that compete for attention. They can go and get jobs. They can pursue careers. Yes, in trust. I don't think that the Chinese have a food crisis that is impacting their ability to have calories at
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