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Right-wing figures push fertility panic despite 180,000 new people added daily

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 10, 2025
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Far-right hatemongers like Elon Musk and Matt Walsh are sounding alarms about a “fertility crisis.” Musk claims that “population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.”

But the data tells a different story. As reported by Samuel Miller McDonald in Current Affairs, the hu…

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