Re: Should We Fear Falling Birthrates? (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Looks like Susan Newman will land in our podcast feed.

 https://podurama.com/episode/c6dd5111-e614-5a9e-ab5a-35987031159b

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:29:59 -0700 (PDT)
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 >  > our growing population was seen as central to wildlife extinctions, resource 
 >  > depletion, pollution, and ecological degradation. But today, leading media 
 >  > outlets and political pundits are sounding the alarm that there are too few 
 >  > of us, not too many. As ecological and social crises escalate, should we 
 >  > really be fearing falling birthrates? Today's newsletter exposes the 
 >  > stubborn chokehold of pronatalism that is preventing us from imagining 
 >  > radically different realities:
 >  > * DEBATE: We will be participating in a debate on declining fertility rates 
 >  > at the International Conference on Family Planning in Colombia next week;
 >  > * OVERSHOOT: Susan Newman, author of Just One, challenges long-held myths 
 >  > about one-child families and why they are the fastest growing family size in 
 >  > many countries;
 >  > * Beyond Pronatalism: After 10 years of traumatizing fertility treatments, 
 >  > Pamela became a leading critic of the exploitative and highly unregulated 
 >  > multi-billion dollar fertility industry;
 >  > * Essay: Our essay, The Perils of Population Denialism, shows why many 
 >  > progressives' denial of the role of population in our eco-social crises 
 >  > hurts their own causes.
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 >  > DEBATE | Should We Fear Falling Birthrates?
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 >  > We will be in Bogotá, Colombia next week attending the International 
 >  > Conference on Family Planning, where we will shine a light on the often 
 >  > missing connections between pronatalism, population, and overshoot. In 
 >  > addition to a media interview on pronatalism, we will participate in a 
 >  > dynamic debate (
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 >  > declining fertility rates over the coming decades.
 >  > 
 >  > OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance
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 >  > The one-child family is becoming the fastest-growing family size in many 
 >  > countries. Social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Just One, shares the 
 >  > abundant research challenging long-held myths that only children are lonely, 
 >  > selfish, or spoiled, and why the growing popularity of one-child families 
 >  > reflects greater parental and child satisfaction and ecological awareness.
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 >  > Distraught by her infertility diagnosis, Pamela pursued the IVF pathway. A 
 >  > decade of costly and painful failed fertility treatments left Pamela 
 >  > traumatized. Determined to expose the exploitative and dangerously 
 >  > pronatalist practices of the highly unregulated multi-billion dollar 
 >  > fertility industry and to bring together other IVF survivors, she founded 
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 >  > In our essay, The Perils of Population Denialism, we expose the illogical 
 >  > and harmful censorship of the role of population in our social and 
 >  > ecological crises by well-meaning progressives, and why this denial flies in 
 >  > the face of their purported causes.
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