Plumetting birth rates have hit the entire 'First World', with even once fertile Ireland heading for the population crash already underway in countries like the UK and even further down the slippery slope in southern Europe, Japan and South Korea. The number of births in America set another record last year, CDC data shows, but it’s not one anyone should celebrate. Just under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, about 68,000 fewer than the year before.
The general fertility rate has fallen as well. According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were only 55 births for every 1,000 females of reproductive age—the lowest fertility rate in American history.
As recently as 2007, American women were averaging almost 2.1 children, the number needed—absent immigration—to keep the population stable. Now, 16 years later, that average has fallen to under 1.7 children, and the decline shows no sign of slowing down. And people are starting to notice.
Elon Musk, for example, has pointed out that low birth rates can lead to economic and societal collapse, warning that America’s total fertility rate has been below replacement for approximately a half century. Others point out than an aging population will not only create labor shortages but strain retirement and healthcare programs to the breaking point.
The issue is becoming another fault-line in US politics. Donald Trump recently said in a recent interview with NBC, “We need great children, beautiful children in our country.”
Kamala Harris, on the other hand, takes a much darker view of people in their numbers. During a speech in July 2023, she said that in order to help deal with climate change she wanted to “reduce population.” Her aides later said that she “misspoke”, and that she had meant to say “reduce pollution.”
But it has long been clear that, for radical environmentalists like Harris, people are pollution. Population control has been a cornerstone of the environmental movement from the beginning. In fact, “Popullution”—short for population pollution–was the slogan of the very first Earth Day in 1970. Environmentalists promote abortion, and supported China’s now-defunct one-child policy, for the same reason: they want to see the population of America and the world reduced.
The entire 'green' movement is as anti-human as the abortion industry.