Having kids in this day and age doesn’t make you a moron

Having kids in this day and age doesn’t make you a moron
Forecasts that the world's population will peak later this century then start to decline, possibly sharply, are making economists anxious. (Image: Depositphotos)
Bloomberg
By Mark Gongloff In the fictional world of the P.D. James novel Children of Men and its movie adaptation, humanity has lost the ability to reproduce and thus faces certain extinction. We are meant to understand this as a bad thing. But there is a subset of people who would consider it a utopia. To them, Earth is doomed as long as it’s infested with humans.One such person is a YouTuber named Sam Mitchell, who identifies as an “Eco-Nazi,” an “unapologetic doomer” and an “unrepentant collapsitarian.”&...

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