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Filmmaker warns against dangers of plummeting global birth rate in new documentary

Data analyst Stephen Shaw said fertility issues across societies and among younger people ‘are actually consequences of the reengineering of our societies to deprioritize parenthood.’

A filmmaker and data analyst warned that the falling birth rate crisis across the globe couldn’t be “any worse.”

Stephen Shaw, who interviewed people around the world to investigate plummeting birthrates for his documentary Birthgap, recently told podcaster Brendan O’Neill that population collapse is a uniquely dangerous problem. This is because unlike the dangers of, say, nuclear proliferation and environmental issues, there are no known solutions to declining birth rates, according to Shaw.

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