The "Falling Birth Rates" false panic is swill
A "World Fertility Crisis" of falling birth rates is one of the latest rightwing yammer-points and proof of a movement steeped in nonsense. It ignores one evolutionary fundamental while rationalizing spew against women's rights. I'll get to that fundamental in a moment. But first...
... I deem voluntary control over birthrates to be one reason we may be an exception to a Fermi Paradox Great Filter. It might (maybe) give us a chance to save the world and balance the planet and gain the stars. (SciFi fans look to THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE.)
As to that fundamental, will you think it through, please? A minority of women, but a fairly large minority - want 5 or more children. We had three and were seriously pondering a fourth. And while that minority does not yet overbalance those having zero or one... IT WILL.
Um... duh? If this keeps up, without us pulling ourselves into an Age of Wisdom, then women with the Wanting Many traits will pass them on, either culturally or genetically. And we had better be more mature - culturally and individually and scientifically - by then. And we MIGHT be! If rates of PER CAPITA wealth and rights and science and progress allow all girls to grow up confident and all humans to be calm fans of science and reason.
What is insipid nonsense is the current MAGA meme of 'self-extinction'. Like every single one of their memes, it is swill, spread into the ranks of ignoramuses by cynical would-be lords.
Yes, the right-wing natalist discourse is reactionary and above all misogynistic. However, the reality of falling birth rates is a symptom of profound attacks on working people that is literally making life unlivable. That should very much concern us.
The crisis of capitalism and the working class is very real.
https://aaronruby.substack.com/p/the-social-catastrophe-of-the-working?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7jhui4
Would someone please name a society that went extinct because the population did not continue to rise exponentially?