Pro-natalists and the ‘Under-Population’ Conspiracy: A Deep Dive

In this video I discuss the growing ‘pro-natalist’ movement, which is based on the idea that the most pressing crisis facing humanity today is the dwindling population number and fertility rates in high income countries (i.e. the imperial core). Followers include tech bros and effective altruists like Elon Musk, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, and the Pennsylvanian couple Malcolm and Simone Collins, who say that humanity is doomed unless we procreate more, even though population numbers in the global south and low-income countries are growing. In fact, the population of the countries that makeup sub-Saharan Africa will become the most populous region in the world in the early 2060s. But that’s not good enough for white pro-natalists because when it comes down to it what these pro-natalists are actually afraid of is the great replacement theory, or being replaced by so called ‘inferior’ races. In the end, I dive into why pronatalism is the perfect Trojan horse to disguise some very bigoted and dangerous ideas, as through this ideology, they’re able to hide behind this facade of ‘preserving humanity’ and ‘saving the world’, and yet, they don’t think prosperity and population booms in historically exploited countries is worth celebrating. --- --- Timestamps: Content Note: 0:00 Part 1: Pro-Natalism - The Ultimate Dog-Whistle 0:21 Part 2: The Curious Case of Simone And Malcolm Collins (And What to Do about Them) 18:50 Conclusion/TL;DW 34:54 --- --- Patreon:   / cheyennelin   --- --- References: Balevic, K. (2024, May 29). A “pronatalist” couple are under fire after the dad publicly slapped his toddler — and they think the criticism is racist. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/prona... Christian, A. (2024, March 26). FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried believed in “effective altruism”. What is it? https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/... Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat. (n.d.). Yale E360. https://e360.yale.edu/features/consum.... Green, E. (2017, December 6). The rebirth of Pro-Natalist public policy in America. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/... Keith, T. (2019, December 13). Paid parental leave: How Republicans learned to love a democratic priority. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/787631... Kleeman, J. (2024, June 1). America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death.’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst... Laboris, I. (2023, December 21). South Korea: New leave entitlements granted. SHRM. https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/emp... Losonczi, M. (2024, January 9). Government’s CSOK expansion set to help housing market, raise birth rates. Hungarian Conservative. https://www.hungarianconservative.com... Ma, Li. Social Policy and Childbearing Behavior in Japan since the 1960s – An Individual Level Perspective by Li Ma PhD, Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University Pro-Natal policies work, but they come with a hefty price tag. (n.d.-b). Institute for Family Studies. https://ifstudies.org/blog/pro-natal-... Putting Families at the Core: the Family Housing Support Program (CSOK). (2016, February 26). Putting Families at the Core: The Family Housing Support Program (CSOK). https://abouthungary.hu/issues/puttin... Rashid, R. (2023, April 12). South Korea has so few babies it is offering new parents $10,500. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4.... Spratt, V., & Hulu, P. C. O. (2020, February 17). Pronatalism: the men who want women to be Baby-Making Machines. Refinery29. https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/what... Stone, L. (2018, June 1). The Great Baby Bust of 2017 - in a state of migration - medium. Medium.   / the-great-baby-bust-of-2017   --- --- Music: ♪ Bored (Prod. by Lukrembo) Link :    • lukrembo - bored