Are We Doomed?

About this episode

Jessa and Nico discuss the societal discourse around marriage and family, highlighting overlooked factors like class and environmental issues.

No one wants to get married, and no one is having children. How can we make this women's fault? Jessa and Nico talk about the frustrating ways we discourse about family in the media, never bringing in relevant subjects like class into the marriage discussion or dropping fertility rates due to environmental poisoning into birth rate hysteria. Scientists are now positing the human race as a whole might only have 8,000 years left to go -- all the better to let octopus civilization thrive. Shownotes and references: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com

People in this episode

Host: Jessa Crispin

Guest: Nico

Topics covered

• marriage
• family discourse
• fertility rates
• environmental issues
• class
• media representation

Keywords

• marriage
• children
• fertility
• environment
• class
• media
• birth rates
• human race

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: media, scientists

Books & works: octopus civilization

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