Erik TorenbergGeneral Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

😱 This is SCARIER than Climate Change or AI? 📉

9 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A speaker argues that falling birth rates pose an existential threat humanity hasn't solved. Unlike climate change or AI, there's no known way to stop fertility rates from hitting zero within a century. The question: will demographic collapse actually end the human world.

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we have no known demographic or cultural force that kicks in and stops us from reaching the TFR zero society. Now, would I bet that there will be a TFR zero society in the next century? I tend to be an optimist. I tend to say that we will figure this out and we will push in the other direction and something else will happen. However, I think that if, if those activists who warn us of the reality of global warming can indulge in hyperbole, of how this might end the world as we know it, I think that demographic changes that have already underwent are certain to end the world as we know it. The only question is, will they end the world, the human world, full stop?