Elon’s Lament: a warning from the world’s wealthiest guy
Having children is a good thing, and the state should encourage it. But is this really the best or most cost-efficient way to go about it?
For fertility to rise, people must change how they think about their families
Despite environmentalist warnings of “overpopulation,” a Lancet study last year predicted that the world’s population will decline significantly in the coming decades for the first time in centuries. Yesterday Gript reported on the fact that Iran has enacted new legislation aimed at encouraging more births. Iran’s new “Law on Family and Youth Support” is part […]
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Italy is fabulous. Italians are wonderful. But in 60 years’ time, half of them will be of African or Asian descent.
The fourth season of the multiple award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale recently commenced on SBS. Loosely based (by this season, at least) on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, the series presents a dystopian picture of a country known as Gilead, based in the north-east of America and ruled by a patriarchal and totalitarian theocratic government. The premise is that […]
The enormous cumulative drop in the Irish birth rate was revealed in figures from the Central Statistics Office today, which will add to concerns about a shrinking and ageing population leading to a fall off in economic growth and an inability to meet future pension and healthcare needs. The number of babies born in Ireland fell […]
Sperm concentration was reduced by 516%
The world’s major economies are being hit hard by demographic change. From China to Europe, they may well grow old before they grow any richer. Over the next three decades, the global number of older persons is projected to more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion persons in 2050. Currently, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia are home to the […]
Fertility Shock: “Nobody mentioned the elephant in the room …we’re facing a major fertility crisis and what does our government do? They’ve just legalised abortion on demand and now they want to make divorce even easier.