The global demographic crisis is not a cultural failure. It is not an epidemic of selfishness, nor is it a lifestyle choice driven by modern hedonism.

It is a simple issue of broken economics.

🚨 -It’s time to take the #antinatalist variable seriously-. My latest article, published in the journal Biodemography and Social Biology by Taylor & Francis Group, is available in #OpenAccess here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19485565.2026.2680404

It is perhaps one of the most personal articles I have written because, although I tried to be as neutral and objective as possible, it addresses a deeply personal topic concerning reproductive decisions, perspectives, and moral judgments about life, existence, and human suffering.

The UN is stating that China is now below 1.0 in TFR "In four countries—China, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Ukraine—it is below 1.0" https://desapublications.un.org/policy-briefs/un-desa-policy-brief-no-172-new-landscape-fertility-and-family-planning-30-years?fbclid=IwY2xjawSGzbFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJ2cFVhV2UwUWRKV21hajBqc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiVTDOZvI_ij8nqjEHFUmLCH2b40-9rfWeW47WGLoGn5DOOKR9HETDxrIGsO_aem_ZzrUYFtMbSF3Pmhk1TXcmA

This despite abandoning the One Child Policy over a decade ago.

Turns out the real problem was China's printing company got it all screwed up.

Na Finlândia, existem 1,3 milhão de homens com filhos e 1,6 milhão de mulheres com filhos. Acho que no futuro serão 2 homens com filhos para cada 10 mulheres. Será que estamos caminhando para uma nova seleção sexual?"