Population growth in the US, Europe, and parts of Asia are below replacement rate. While popular ideas on population from the 1970s, boosted by thinkers like Carl Sagan, claimed that the real threat to humanity was overpopulation, new concerns have emerged that humanity is heading for a population collapse. For Politico, however, advocating for human reproduction is nothing more than a far-right plot. 

"We are living through the greatest population bust in human history," NatalCon says. "The future belongs to those who show up." 


Politico reporter Gaby Del Valle headed out to cover the first Natal Conference in Austin at the end of last year as part of her beat writing about "immigration, surveillance, and the far right." What she discerned from that experience is that natalism, or the belief that humans should reproduce, has a more nefarious, "ultimate goal," which is "a total social overhaul, a culture in which child-rearing is paramount." 

Elon Musk, who has had many children of his own, responded to the story, saying "If birth rates continue to plummet, human civilization will end." And he's not wrong. 

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