Birth Control, New Cheap Option
It's probably not 100% reliable, but some men may be able to achieve temporary sterility, with no obvious side effects, just by wearing polyester pants. Downsides: polyester pants work by raising the body temperature, they trap sweat, and probably reducing sexual opportunities by increasing body odor.
Then again, it seems, some young people are just skipping sexual relationships altogether. Guys don't want to be accused of sexual hatecrimes. This is good. Nobody wants the expense of parenthood in their twenties, and a lot of people don't want to try to keep a child in an apartment. This is good.
A declining birth rate means that (gasp!) there won't be so many people around in a few years. This is excellent! This is something the whole world needs! It's nothing to worry about...except for public-spirit-challenged seniors who want to do retirement the way it was done in the 1950s, when a handful of survivors of plagues and wars enjoyed a few years of luxury at a tiny expense to masses of young working people. We can't have that demographic balance again. Too many of us want to enjoy our old age. So the only real solution is for Boomers to buck up and keep working while we're able, in order to have a large working population paying into a disability pension plan, and discover the health benefits of staying active as long as we're able to walk.
When population reaches healthy levels again, the young people of then--however few or many of them there may be--will feel enthusiastic about having one or even two children again. Nature works that way.
Meanwhile, if we can give thanks for the declining birth rate and tolerate a little homosexuality and gender confusion, we may be able to avoid nature's final response to overpopulation, which involves lots of same-species killing, and sometimes cannibalism.
Grief
Somebody out there needs to read this:
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