Simone Drexler: My pitch is around having a culture in your family that can propagate throughout time. We ask our kids, if their descendants are still alive, would those descendants be more the way they conceptualize a human today? And I think most people, if you're talking 10 million years of technological advancement in the future, they're probably going to be closer to the way we would conceptualize a God today. Our kids do not exist to serve us and their ancestors as they do in many other cultures. Our kids exist to serve their descendants.
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What is pro-natalism? How fast are birth rates falling around the world? How long will it take for us to really feel the effects of population collapse? What are the primary drivers of population collapse? How does the current difficulty of raising children compare to other periods in history? What roles do various religions and philosophies play in population dynamics? What are some non-coercive ways to encourage population growth? What constitutes an intergenerationally durable culture?
Simone and Malcolm Collins are a husband-wife team driving the pronatalist movement, which seeks to bring attention to the risks of a hard landing on demographic collapse. In addition to running the Pronatalist Foundation, the Collins Institute, and a collection of private equity companies, they enjoy writing, having so far published five bestselling books (The Pragmatist's Guide series). To hear more from them, check out their podcast (on Substack, YouTube, or whenever you listen to podcasts), follow them on Twitter at @SimoneHCollins, or check out their books:
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