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Three Good Fellows and Not Enough Babies: A Conversation with Demographer Nicolas Eberstadt | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Are We Going to Have Children Because the Planets Dying?

The recent literature on mental health in the United States, especially amongst young people, it's quite an alarming picture. When trying to dig into the reasons for depression and despondency one comes across this argument that we're not going to have children because the planets are dying. But I would say even maybe places just in context of catastrophizing generally, right, and how you know you have the sort of various forms of hysteria that seem to be amplified by various forms of social media.

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