RE: https://flipboard.com/@scimag/news-from-science-dgvs7ea7z/-/a-dHaawse0TlCFW1dxAadrpA%3Aa%3A2427788627-%2F0

Next time you hear about the imminent #DemographicCollapse and extinction of the human race because women don't have enough babies (ideology promoted not only by right-wing politicians and activists, but also by many techbros BTW), just read this article about how many external catastrophes and misfortunes #Neanderthals had to withstand until they finally went extinct.

https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-survived-knife-s-edge-350-000-years

*Is this more intense than Chatbot Boyfriend or less intense than Chatbot Boyfriend #demographiccollapse #TwentyTwenties
Becuse my elderly father likes to bring his latest existential dread to me, I've been reading about #DemographicCollapse / #PopulationDecline & even some #leftist writers seem to ignore that we spent the last century worried about a #malthusian disaster.
Obviously, it's a real problem, but are there good sources I can read/watch that aren't going to lead me to #doomerism?
#nzpol #futurism
📉👶🕯️ Russia shrouds birth stats in silence as its cradle empties, the ghost of empire pacing cold halls. The numbers fall like snow. No sound but absence.
#DemographicCollapse https://www.newsweek.com/russia-classifies-population-data-birth-rate-2074460
Russia Classifies Population Data as Birth Rates Plunge to 200-Year Low

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said reviving the nation's birth rate is one of Russia's "top priorities."

Newsweek
Look, I don't care whether your "#DemographicCollapse" take is contrarian because you're AKSHUALLY worried about demographic collapse in India & China. It's still nonsense.