Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼#155
Given the scope and scale of the low birthrate crisis, there is surprisingly little investment in policy, public education, and research.
When overpopulation was the fear, numerous well funded organizations sprang up, and governments took action all over the world.
A collapse in the global population looks increasingly inevitable. Fertility rates have fallen below replacement in more than 66% of nations.
No policy intervention has substantially reversed this trend. And technological progress seems to be accelerating it. A smaller, weirder world is on its way https://www.vox.com/politics/491167/ai-smartphones-fertility-crisis-birth-rates?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImpGNEtZUG5iV0giLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ5MTE2Ny9haS1zbWFydHBob25lcy1mZXJ0aWxpdHktY3Jpc2lzLWJpcnRoLXJhdGVzIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMTM2OTQ5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODA5MjczNDl9.kp6Uvudj1Xx-IoBGGgeNKQFMTwhV5qE0lR-uPxXx1Uk&utm_medium=gift-link
