Birth rates have been dropping around much of the world for quite a while. The only places where you're seeing population growing at a pretty fast rate are parts of africa, subst hernaferas and south asia. We've never really faced this before in the history of our entire species, so we don't know what this is going to be like. It's going to be somethingtha's gin to be really ificult to deal with.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight population decline by paying some citizens to have more kids. But a real solution involves one weird trick Hungary — and US conservatives — hates.
This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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