An extraordinary daily life
The last work by Giuseppe Brienza on Licia and Settimio Manelli, couple of brides who for their example of faith, generosity and courage, shine before the long night of the nineteenth century
by Alessandro Tadini
anno XVII n. 4 Roma aprile 2017 (p. 73)
For the last forty years, the West is marked by a fertility rate well below the "replacement threshold" - 2.1 children on average for women - which guarantees the replacement of generations and the balance not only of quantity, but also qualitative of the population. The average European rate is currently around 1.5 children per woman.
Many scientists and intellectuals, infuriated more or less consciously of Neo-Malthusian faith, claim that such a collapse of births in the West must in fact be considered a resource, as the small number of children and the population would guarantee a better environmental, economic and social sustainability for the Earth; and that, therefore, it seems ridiculous, if not crazy, to argue that ever-expanding populations with stable, numerous and coherent institutions are a cause for success and prosperity for the whole society


Briseide a te strappata: a malapena