Dee-dee of Bath, ME I am doing my part to lower the rate.

No kids for me and many others I know. Planning on keeping it that way.report abuse

The Reader of Central, ME Yet Anti Liberal, you continue to live here.report abuse

chromedome of China, ME Overpopulation is a huge problem. What this article seems to suggests “In Vermont, officials say the low (birth) rate could accelerate a demographic shift that threatens to shrink the state's work force” is that we must have a growing population for the “public officials” to look good.

Government in general always seems to measure their success by an expanding economy, which when you think about it, is nothing more than more people making a buying more THINGS.

In the mean time our environment is trying to tell us that we are past the point that our world can keep providing room and resources for our destructive (on the environment) lifestyles. We as humans live against the environment instead of with it. We don’t walk, we drive, we don’t sleep on the ground, we build houses and cities to pass our time in. When we build our homes we don’t place them in the environment with as little impact as possible, we often strip nearly the entire lot of trees to build on, thus greatly changing more than we must do to live.

We go to “developing countries” most with high birth rates, cure the medical issues that keep their populations in check and then invade them with religious fanatics. Fanatics that often tell them NOT to control their fertility rates because each religion wants them to produce more of themselves (in that religion) to keep each religion growing and competitive with opposing religions.

What is the end game here, to destroy our civilization (and the world) with our own good intentions?report abuse