Baby Bust: Why Conservatives are Obsessed with Birth Rates Now

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My debut feature-length documentary BOOMERS is out NOW. Watch it here: https://go.nebula.tv/boomers?ref=tomnicholas Get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas A video about why birth rates are dropping, and why conservative politicians and commentators won't shut up about it. Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas. Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows. *Chapters* 00:00 Elon Musk and the Pronatalists 04:00 Whatever happened to the Population Bomb? 07:46 A Population Primer 10:53 Japan's Depopulation Problem 15:08 Delayed Deaths, Dependency, and Demographic Aging 20:42 Enter the Contraceptive Pill 23:28 Women, Work, and Wealth 26:44 The Manosphere and Misogyny 37:10 An Everything Problem 44:33 My Movie is Out Now! Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-why-conservatives-are-obsessed-with-birth-rates-now *Bibliography* Find a bibliography for this video here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118367988 *Blurb* Babies. We're having fewer of them than ever. Over the past half-century, and even more so over the past couple of decades, fertility rates across the world have fallen through the floor. As things stand, over half the countries in the United Nations are having fewer children than needed to maintain their current population levels. But, over the past few years, something even more interesting has happened; conservative commentators and politicians including Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, J.D. Vance, Malcolm Collins, Joe Rogan, and Peter Thiel have leapt on the topic, presenting it as the key social crisis of our time. What's going on here? And do any of these people really have the answers to the world's baby challenges? Support my work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tomnicholas Twitch: http://twitch.tv/tom_nicholas Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound