Politico says making babies is ‘far right’ as low birth rates lead to population collapse

 Libby Emmons

“If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end.”

Population growth in the US, Europe, and parts of Asia are below replacement rate. While popular ideas on population from the 1970s, boosted by thinkers like Carl Sagan, claimed that the real threat to humanity was overpopulation, new concerns have emerged that humanity is heading for a population collapse. For Politico, however, advocating for human reproduction is nothing more than a far-right plot.

“We are living through the greatest population bust in human history,” NatalCon says. “The future belongs to those who show up.”

Politico reporter Gaby Del Valle headed out to cover the first Natal Conference in Austin at the end of last year as part of her beat writing about “immigration, surveillance, and the far right.” What she discerned from that experience is that natalism, or the belief that humans should reproduce, has a more nefarious, “ultimate goal,” which is “a total social overhaul, a culture in which child-rearing is paramount.”

Elon Musk, who has had many children of his own, responded to the story, saying “If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end.” And he’s not wrong.

Those pushing the crazy idea that human beings have a responsibility to perpetrate the species, and that if humans leave off having children, civilization will collapse, Del Valle writes, “are members of the New Right, a conglomeration of people in the populist wing of the conservative movement who believe we need seismic changes to the way we live now—and who often see the past as the best model for the future they’d like to build.”

Conservatives, of course, are averse to broad, chaotic social change and believe that traditional values have greater moral weight than the ever-shifting values of contemporary culture that lean into self-fulfillment above all else. Del Valle seems surprised that the conservatives at NatalCon advocated for nuclear families as the foundational building blocks of society.

full story at https://thepostmillennial.com/politico-says-making-babies-is-far-right-as-low-birth-rates-lead-to-population-collapse

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