Most headliner issues these days are controlled by a certain “narrative”. This usually means a one sided “entertainment” story. Most likely there is a very vocal, probably small minority with an incentive that is not seen by all behind it. Look at the trans thing. Look at the climate thing.
Let’s look at the population thing…specifically the UNDER population thing. Here's a story that hasn't reached the “entertainment” news headline thing full on yet even though Elon and Jack Ma have been on a public stage together yakking about it.
Those of you old enough like me will remember Paul Erhlich’s Population Bomb book and the catastrophe (yet to happen) that he raved about. Well poor Paul may get the decreased population he wished for and that might not be a good thing. The climate ravers who almost seem anti-human to me sometimes in that they seem to say evil humans are spoiling the pristine planet might get what they wish for.[1]
Right now the majority of the world’s countries are under their population replacement number of TWO. For simplicity’s sake if parents produce two children the world stays the same and if parents on average produce three kids then the world population grows.
Right now total childlessness in the female population of the world is 30%. If you are a woman who makes it to the age of 30 years old with no kids your chances are about 50% if not having kids. In days of antiquity if you managed to make it to 14 you were probably pregnant and you were probably a grandmother at 28. This would be called child abuse today.
India and Bangladesh are now both under the magic two number. In Thailand 70% of students in post-secondary school are females and educated females generally don't want uneducated men.
Ah, but you say technology like freezing eggs, and IVF, and external wombs will save the day. Don’t count on it. The TV show may show you the fertility gynecologist for some famous middle aged celebrity who has had a kid but they are not likely to show you the failures. Basically women’s ovaries get old and get worse at producing eggs. The anti-aging science and external wombs are pure science fiction right now.
This entire western liberal democratic world that we live in depends on a triangle demographic pyramid with lots of young people coming into the bottom which allows governments to create more fiat currency and push debt further into the future. When the triangle becomes a rectangle the sh*it will hit the fan as there will not be enough younger people to pay the debt. Owners will not invest in their businesses if there are less and less younger customers.
Stephen J. Shaw, a data scientist, has spent seven years doing a documentary on this that is well worth seeing.
[1] Four billion years ago on this planet there were some biological units that learned how to grab photons from the sun to make food with the side effect of releasing a very toxic gas into the atmosphere which killed the majority of biological things alive at that time. This toxic gas was called oxygen. The bottom line is that biology has been “ruining” the planet forever in the name of biological survival….Darwin had a name for it.