Paying People to Have Children 完整註解

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針對人口少子化，作者提出一個大膽的觀點，或許通過給予家庭數百萬美元的現金激勵，才能真正解決人口減少的問題。

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1. Fertility 生育能力
   Fertility Rate 生育率
2. Population 人口
3. Citizen 人民
4. Economic 經濟的
5. Incentive 誘因、激勵

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The most intractable problem I see in this century

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The most intractable problem I see in this century is the coming population implosion. (Climate change is a trackable problem; we know what we have to do.)

21世紀我們面臨的一個難以解決的問題是人口急速減少 (population implosion)。作者指出，氣候變化雖然也是一個重要的問題，它是可追蹤的 (trackable)，我們對應的方法已經相對明確。人口減少的問題更加複雜。

On average, humans are not replacing themselves today, and beginning in a few more decades, there will be fewer humans on this planet every year. Unless something changes, the population goes to zero in another century. So far, there is no known solution to raising fertility rates once they have sunk below replacement levels. Nothing we have tried anywhere in the world has worked. Free daycare, apartments, and cash bonuses don’t do it.

現今，人類平均出生數量已經少於死亡人數（they are not replacing themselves 意思就是出生的數量無法取代離開的數量），再過幾十年，每年地球上的人數將減少。除非有所改變，否則人口將在另一個世紀內降至零。迄今為止，並沒有提高生育率的解決方案，全球各地嘗試過的方法，如提供免費的托兒所、公寓和現金獎勵等，但都沒有奏效。