About this episode

Jon Harris and statistician William M. Briggs discuss the demographic crisis facing the West, exploring factors behind falling birth rates and population decline.

Are white people really dying out? Is the West facing demographic collapse? And why are birth rates falling throughout the developed world? In this episode of Conversations That Matter, Jon Harris is joined by statistician William M. Briggs to examine the numbers behind population decline, fertility rates, demographic change, and the future of Western civilization. William Briggs discusses his experience in academia, supporting Donald Trump in 2016, and eventually being canceled by Cornell. The conversation then turns to one of the most important questions facing the modern world: Why are people having fewer children? The discussion covers feminism and equality, housing and economic pressures, immigration, aging populations, technology, religion, pornography, online life, Israel's comparatively high fertility rate, Christianity, and the ways bad science can distort public understanding of environmental and medical threats. Are falling birth rates primarily the result of environmental factors, or are people simply making different decisions about marriage and children? And will humanity eventually return to higher fertility rates? Join the conversation. Follow William M. Briggs…

People in this episode

Host: Jon Harris

Guest: William M. Briggs

Topics covered

• demographic crisis
• fertility rates
• population decline
• Western civilization
• cultural change
• economic pressures
• environmental factors

Keywords

• demographic collapse
• birth rates
• fertility
• Western civilization
• cultural change
• economic pressures
• feminism
• technology
• Christianity

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Organizations: Cornell, WMBriggs.com, JonHarrisMedia.com

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