Stephen J Shaw: Are falling birth rates a crisis for humanity?

27/05/2024 22 min

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Episode Synopsis

Stephen Sackur speaks to the data scientist Stephen J Shaw, who argues that humanity faces a looming demographic crisis, with falling birth rates having dire economic and social consequences. But in an age of economic turbulence and ecological concern, do we really want to be promoting the idea that humans need to have more babies?

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