EARTH’S BIGGEST CRISIS: NOT ENOUGH HUMANS We used to panic about too many people. The real problem? We’re not making enough of them. Birth rates are tanking worldwide. South Korea's basically ghosted childbirth (0.7 kids per woman), and even the U.S. is at a record low. https://t.co/H8FlEesUdk
It’s not growth that’s the problem, it’s growthism: the pursuit of growth for its own sake, or for the sake of capital accumulation, rather than to meet concrete human needs and social objectives.
The current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival. . . . Some people are in denial about the reality and gravity of the issue, and others shrug it off, saying the earth is overpopulated. . . . In some ways, the sperm-count decline is akin to where global warming was forty years ago—reported upon
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