A strange article to be inspired to make one of my infrequent posts but this article is pretty thought provoking.

No Babies - Declining Population in Europe

As a future this is one that few if any writers have pondered. I recall that David Brin suggested that this current reduction is evolution in practice and as the couples that lack the urgent desire to have children fail to do so, the ones which are keen will have children similarly enthusiastic. This means that we may be living at a time when evolution will reset a few things and in a few or several generations we'll have a population enthusiastic to have children again and the population will start increasing... with no let up as the gene for 'child bearing passivity' knocked out in the 1990s and 2000's.

I shall put my pondering cap on...