Baby Bust: Why Conservatives are Obsessed with Birth Rates Now
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A video about why birth rates are dropping, and why conservative politicians and commentators won't shut up about it.
Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas.
Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows.
Chapters
00:00 Elon Musk and the Pronatalists
04:00 Whatever happened to the Population Bomb?
07:46 A Population Primer
10:53 Japan's Depopulation Problem
15:08 Delayed Deaths, Dependency, and Demographic Aging
20:42 Enter the Contraceptive Pill
23:28 Women, Work, and Wealth
26:44 The Manosphere and Misogyny
37:10 An Everything Problem
44:33 My Movie is Out Now!
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Blurb
Babies. We're having fewer of them than ever. Over the past half-century, and even more so over the past couple of decades, fertility rates across the world have fallen through the floor.
As things stand, over half the countries in the United Nations are having fewer children than needed to maintain their current population levels.
But, over the past few years, something even more interesting has happened; conservative commentators and politicians including Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, J.D. Vance, Malcolm Collins, Joe Rogan, and Peter Thiel have leapt on the topic, presenting it as the key social crisis of our time.
What's going on here? And do any of these people really have the answers to the world's baby challenges?
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Music from Epidemic Sound