Peace Without Poison

only be possible with a contraceptive prevalence rate of 90% and no mishaps. During theseventies the contraceptive prevalence rate peaked at 80% and fertility sunk below 1.7 childrenper woman throughout the decade. Since then contraceptive use has fallen but fertility hasremained stuck round 1.7 children per woman, which shows that contraceptives are just aplacebo.Nor is abortion anything other than a minor factor since the historical record shows that theabortion rate was below 5% during the 1950s, below 10% during the 1960s, peaked round 25%during the 1970s, and has decreased ever since, to below 18% during the 1980s and below 15%during the 1990s, where it has remained stuck ever since.Finland has been rewarded for its genocidal fervor with affluence, which began to rise as soon asfertility dropped to replacement level in the 1960s. But now that Finland has entered the tail endof the demographic transition and the population has levelled off so has the GDP per capita,which will start decreasing as soon as the population starts decreasing. Since 2011, Finland’spopulation has been flat and so has its GDP.269 | P a g e