The Will Cain Show – Fox News Channel – Broadcast September 8, 2025
WHAT’S DRIVING DECLINING U.S. BIRTH RATES?
Marc Morano, Climate Depot executive editor: “Young people are afraid to have kids, at least kids are disappearing or birth rates are dropping, but only in progressive households.” pic.twitter.com/5C7EEgyjdq
— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow) September 8, 2025
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Our NBC News Decision Desk poll asked Gen Z adults (18-29 years old) what they consider important to a successful life. The combination of gender and politics produced two very different sets of priorities: pic.twitter.com/xvm0t4IKaT
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) September 8, 2025
NBC News: Poll: Gen Z’s gender divide reaches beyond politics and into its views on marriage, children and success – Gen Z men who backed Trump in 2024 rated having children at the top of a list of choices of how to define personal success. Gen Z women who backed Harris rated it second to last.
Interesting:
Birthrates in rich countries not declining across the board
It is predominantly left-wing people having fewer kids
"I find that the assumption that birth rates are falling across society in general is not really true. From the US to Europe and beyond, people who… pic.twitter.com/uiREOkscjV
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 5, 2025
Sunrise Movement’s leader warns kids ‘share really intense stories of contemplating suicide…because of the climate crisis. It’s not uncommon’ – September 1, 2020
Rieder says the U.S. and others should do away with tax credits for new parents and actually impose penalties like a carbon tax on kids. And he knows that sounds crazy.
T. RIEDER: But children, in a cold way of looking at it, are an externality. We as parents, we as family members, we get the good, and the world, the community pays the cost.
NYT profiles founder of ‘Voluntary Human Extinction movement’– ‘Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None’
Flashback: Grist Mag. Going Down: Is too few people the new ‘population problem?’ – December 14, 2005
Excerpt: Among the nations with the lowest fertility levels in the world are relatively rich countries like Italy and Spain, but they are matched by still-developing Eastern European nations like Romania and Ukraine. Even the continent’s comparatively lusty countries, such as France and Ireland, are only cranking out an average of 1.8 children per woman — well below the “replacement level” of 2.1 that’s needed to sustain current population levels. Populations are declining in seven of the 25 European Union member countries, and the trend will continue. According to Eurostat [PDF], the E.U.’s pocket-protector brigade, population numbers will rise gradually over the next two decades to about 470 million, thanks mainly to immigration, before falling by 20 million people by mid-century, when immigration will no longer be able to offset rising death rates and falling birthrates. Germany alone is projected to lose 8 million by 2050, a drop of nearly 10 percent from its present population of 82.5 million — that’s a loss roughly equal to the populations of its five biggest cities combined. Outside Europe, a notable trend toward depopulation is also occurring in Japan, where the fertility rate has fallen in recent years. The government estimates that by 2050 there will be 25 million fewer Japanese — that’s like saying goodbye to one-fifth of the current population, or all of greater Tokyo.
Paper: Population may actually drop below its current levels by 2100 – April 13, 2009
Excerpt: The problem is, numbers lie. Past estimates of population growth have virtually always overestimated world fertility rates, and underestimated social trends that led to fewer babies. This time will be no different. If fertility rates decline just a little more than predicted (and the decline in fertility rates over the past four decades has been faster than almost any estimate out there), the population actually begins to shrink in 2040. By 2050, at the low end of fertility expectations, U.N. forecasts show just 7.96 billion people in 2050. And by the end of the century, the population will actually drop below its current levels. The late, great U.S. economist Julian Simon had it exactly right: Human beings aren’t a “cost” to the planet, or to human society. They are in fact its only real asset. Their intelligence, creativity and ability to learn make the Earth a beautiful place. Those things helps us to use fewer resources to create more wealth. That’s why the environmentally cleanest nations on earth are also the richest.
