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"For Malcolm and Simone Collins, declining birth rates across many developed
countries are an existential threat. The solution is to have “tons of kids,”
and to use a hyperrational, data-driven approach to guide everything from
genetic selection to baby names and day-to-day parenting.
They don’t heat their Pennsylvania home in winter, because heating is a
“pointless indulgence”. Their children wear iPads around their necks. And a
Guardian journalist witnessed Malcolm strike their two-year-old across the
face for misbehaviour, a parenting style they apparently developed based on
watching “tigers in the wild”.
The Collinses are leading spokespeople for a movement called pronatalism,
popular in Silicon Valley. Elon Musk, a father of 11, is one of its leading
proponents. “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk
to civilization than global warming,” Musk tweeted.
Demographers disagree: there is no collapse, and one is not even predicted.
Such evidence has not stopped the rise of pronatalism in response to an
imagined “population bomb.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
