Could Cratering Birthrates Mean Impending Disaster? with Dr. Alice Evans

Factually! with Adam Conover

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Global fertility rates are dropping, and while this might initially seem like a solution to overpopulation concerns, it also signals major challenges ahead. A generational imbalance could spell disaster for social security, elder care, and the workforce needed to combat climate change. This week, Adam sits down with Dr. Alice Evans to explore the causes behind declining birthrates, the consequences they could bring, and how society's failure to break harmful gender role expectations for men impacts everyone.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:25.7	Hey there.
0:26.5	Welcome to Factually.
0:27.5	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.4	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:30.2	You know, a surprising undercurrent in the presidential election this year was the declining
0:34.4	birth rate in America.
0:36.3	The birth rate here has actually been falling since 2007,
0:39.7	and it continues plummeting to historic lows.
0:42.5	And this year, for the first time I can remember,
0:45.2	you had politicians talking about that.
0:47.2	J.D. Vance leads a wing of the Republican Party
0:50.2	that is somewhat obsessed with the birth rate.
0:52.8	That's why he made all those comments about childless cat ladies, denigrating people who
0:57.2	don't want to have kids, and why he generally proposes a return to 1950s gender roles
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