Is Population Collapse A Real Risk? - Stephen J. Shaw - #583

Stephen J Shaw is a data scientist and filmmaker. Over the last 7 years, Stephen has visited 24 countries and analysed millions of piece of data to work out what is happening with global birthrates and predict the earth's future population. The answer is shocking and literally every person needs to be aware of it. Expect to learn how 70% of countries on earth are below the population tipping point, what the cause of such rapidly changing birthrates can be attributed to, why women seem to find motherhood less attractive in 2023, whether marriage rates need to be raised, if cost of living, hormonal birth control or environmentalism is to blame and much more... Sponsors: Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://bit.ly/sharkwisdom (use code: MW10) Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 20% discount on Cured Nutrition’s CBD at https://curednutrition.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:17) Stephen’s Motivations for Studying Population Collapse (05:04) Whatever Happened to the Population ‘Bomb?’ (11:06) The Deeply Concerning Birth Rate of Western Nations (19:18) Do Women Want to Have Children? (36:07) Do Men Want to Have Children? (44:08) Are Finances Getting in the Way? (56:06) Is it our Moral Imperative to Have Children? (1:02:02) Why Industrialisation Correlates with Declining Birth Rates (1:09:22) Impact of Declining Birth Rates on the Economy (1:17:00) How Nations Can Improve Birth Rates (1:23:19) Where to Find Stephen Extra Stuff: Watch Birthgap on YouTube - https://youtu.be/A6s8QlIGanA  Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices