Stephen J. Shaw is doing amazing work on the fertility crisis and the ongoing depopulation collapse. He’s the one who made the original Birthgap documentary, and I think he just came out with a new one, which is why he’s doing the podcast circuit.
In any case, I found this interview quite fascinating. From what I’ve seen of him, Stephen J. Shaw strikes me as a thoughtful, gentle, and caring man—not at all the sort of monster that the left-wing opponents of the pro-natalist movement like to paint us all as. It’s not at all about forcing women to have children, or about trying to breed more of the right kind of genes and less of the wrong kind. Rather, he sees our collapsing fertility as an existential human crisis, and wants to do everything he can to avert (or at least mitigate) the coming collapse.
Sadly, I think one half of the equation want humanity to die off. But they don’t seem to understand what a cascading failure of a population decline will look like. They will feel it in ways they don’t seem to get, but then when it hits they will complain about it.
I think this is an issue that we need to solve, but I don’t think we will. With the status quo being what it is, I suspect humanity will go extinct before men and women can make peace and babies again.
That’s a pretty black-pilled look at it. I think it may be true for some subcultures, especially the “global urban monoculture,” but there are some people who are bucking the trend. Case in point, we just had our third baby a couple of days ago, and the labor and delivery wing here at Utah Valley Medical Center was hopping busy.
While the global population is about to have a serious crash, and there are huge swaths of the world that may never recover from it, I find it difficult to believe that humanity will go completely extinct. The collapse is here, but it isn’t evenly distributed, and subcultures like the Mormons, Amish, and Jews may never fall into demographic collapse. Though that would make for a rather interesting future world. The Mormons will love the Amish and the Jews, and the Amish and Jews will do their best to tolerate the friendly but annoying Mormons.