Declining Birth Rates Are a Good Thing, Actually

It’s not the fall of civilization — it’s a chance to save it.

Photo by Mike Chai

A new kind of propaganda is sweeping through the lush halls of power, the feeds of social media, and even the lips of your nearest, dearest billionaire. Declining birth rates, they warn, are a harbinger of doom, a signal of cultural collapse, a death knell for "Western civilization." And at the helm of this chorus of panic is none other than Trump-buddy Elon Musk, tweeting apocalyptic soundbites like "Population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization" or "If there aren’t enough people for Earth, there definitely won’t be enough for Mars!”.