Jim Penman argues that 140 million births per year is the global peak, and the decline will be steep, not gradual. He blames shifting attitudes toward family and children among younger generations, not economics, for the coming collapse in birth rates across most countries.
Hi, I'm Jim Penman. I'm a businessman who's funded a research institute into, amongst other things, the birth rate crisis. Why are birth rates dropping? I've written previous books including Epigenetics and Character and Biohistory, about to release Birth Rate Crisis. What we see here is a chart of the number of births, which has risen and it's reached a plateau about 140 million and it's just starting to come off. And the projections are that it's going to decline very slightly. Let me tell you, this is completely wrong. You're not going to tell leveling off. What you're going to see is a decline. And we know that because it depends on attitude. It's not money, it's attitude. People are having less children because they don't want children as much as they used to. The younger generation, the youngest generation, is more anti-children, anti-family by far than their elders. So what you're going to see is a continued rapid decline. Most countries in the world are going to go way, way below replacement level.
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