The baby bust and its potentially catastrophic consequences garnered both worldwide and national attention.
Elon Musk recently warned again that America’s declining birth rate poses a greater threat to civilization than climate change or war. "If we don’t have kids, there’s no civilization," he wrote on X.
Shannon Osaka, The Washington Post
Madison Colombo, Fox News
Lyman Stone, Peter Foreshaw Brookes, The Critic
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