Population panic about declining Western fertility has a long institutional history

Evidence

The most likely consequence of this ‘ethnic fusion’ between East and West, in Stoddard’s opinion, would be ‘a dreary mongrelization from which would issue nothing but degeneration and decay’. In 1949, the British Royal Commission on Population similarly worried that the rate of fertility increase among ‘the peoples of Western civilization’ had ‘markedly declined while that of Oriental peoples has markedly accelerated’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 80

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing how the 1949 Royal Commission framed fertility in civilizational rather than economic terms.