[ExI] To Arms!

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> The interesting part is that Italy and Spain have lower fertilities than
> the North Europe, when they were used to have hogher.
>
> Another more interesting point is that Morocco had a sudden fall of its
> fertility in the '70, when they needed to finance the war in the West Sahara
> and raised the taxes to the current levels.
>
> Iran have the same level of fertility as Italy, and the women are not so
> much empowered as in Italy or the US.
>
> This is, probably, also a function of the urbanization of large part of the
> population. More people live in city house, less space they have to raise
> their children. I could be wrong, but if the law mandated the construction
> of four bedrooms only apartments we would have much higher fertility.


Whereas a high fertility rates are bad, right?

I thought that had been
established<http://embarqblog.wri.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/india-train.jpg>
....

..unless you regard human beings as a means to an
end<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeA6y2vFXgU>'.


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