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You're Wrong About Birth Rates & Aging Populations

See Part 2 now! https://go.nebula.tv/philosophytube Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube BIBLIOGRAPHY: Janet Adamy & Anthony DeBarros, “U.S. Population Growth, an Economic Driver, Grinds to a Halt,” in The Wall Street Journal Sophie Alexander & Dana Hull, “Elon Musk Wants You To Have More Babies,” in Bloomberg Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion Amnesty Internatonal, “Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians” Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks Étienne Balibar, We, the People of Europe? Josh Boerman & June Sternbach, Ill Conceived Elizabeth Bruenig, “The Pro-Baby Coalition of the Far Right,” in The Atlantic Elizabeth Bruenig, “Why the Left Should Embrace Pronatalism,” in The Atlantic Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? David Calnitsky, “Why the Left Should Care About Population Decline,” in Jacobin Alexander Cockburn, “The Triumph of Crackpot Realism,” in The Nation Millie Cooke, “Palestine Action terror ban risks ‘I am Spartacus’ moment, Labour peer warns,” in The Independent Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Michel Foucault, “The Order of Discourse” Sammy Gecsoyler, “‘Police would like this to go away’: disabled man arrested at Palestine Action event defends protest,” in The Guardian Agnieszka Graff & Elżbieta Korolczuk, Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment Tia Goldenberg, “After tumbling in polls, Netanyahu clings to power and aims to improve political standing during war,” in PBS News Emma Green, “The Rebirth of America’s Pro-Natalist Movement,” in The Atlantic Tia Goldenberg, “After tumbling in polls, Netanyahu clings to power and aims to improve political standing during war,” in PBS News Emma Green, “The Rebirth of America’s Pro-Natalist Movement,” in The Atlantic Richard Jackson, “The Epistemological Crisis of Counterterrorism” Bianca Jagger, “Why I am marching for freedom of speech,” in The Independent Sam Kriss, “The law that can be named is not the true law” Taras Kuzio, “How Putin’s Russia embraced fascism while preaching anti-fascism,” in Atlantic Council Huw Lemmy, “Who’s Afraid of Palestine Action?” in The London Review of Books Anu Madgavkar et. al, “Dependency and Depopulation,” McKinsey Global Institute Samuel Miller McDonald, “There Are Many Threats To Humanity. A Low Birth Rate Isn’t One of Them,” in Current Affairs Phil Mullan, The Imaginary Time Bomb Michael Naas, “Comme si, comme ca” in Derrida From Now On Tom Nicholas, “Baby Bust: Why Conservatives Are Obsessed with Birth Rates Now” Tom Nicholas, "Boomers" Frank W. Notestein, “The Facts of Life,” in The Atlantic Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist,” in The Atlantic Fred Pearce, “The World in 2076: The Population Bomb Has Imploded,” in New Scientist Jonathon Porritt, “I was arrested at the Palestine Action ban protest – and it all still seems surreal,” in The Independent Population Matters, “Elon Musk and the Population Apocalypse” David Renton, “What is the Meaning of Support?” in The London Review of Books Emine Sinmaz, “Almost 900 people arrested at Palestine Action ban protest, say Met police,” in The Guardian Amanda Taub, “The Feminist Case for Spending Billions to Boost the Birthrate,” in The New York Times Darin Tenev, “La Déconstruction en enfant: the Concept of Phantasm in the Work of Derrida” UNFPA, The Real Fertility Crisis Stephanie van der Berg, “Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Scholars’ Association Says,” in Reuters Various, House of Commons Debates Robyn Vinter and Ben Quinn, “Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’” in The Guardian Rebecca Wilks, "They’re just waiting for her to die": How austerity turns mental health patients into prisoners,” in The Lead MUSIC: Original Music by Nina Richards: https://www.ninarichards.co.uk/ #philosophy #birthrates #aging

Comments

TheGirlFromTheFourthPlanet

Wait, that means... The second part is already in Nebula! Friday evening just got a 200% better.

Gem

Taking this as a chance to say thanks for teaching about phantasms. Although a scary concept (in terms of the role of them in our society) I found it comforting to have an answer to how people's minds work. Something something, know your enemy, something something. I have a prism on my desk now which I use as a comfort.

Saoirse

I still remember watching your Karl Marx vs. Charles Darwin video which debunks the Herbert Spencer overpopulation moral panic (and it's many reboots over the years). I feel like these types of arguments come from a similar place. Always implicitly ableist (it's always about having a "fit work force"), and often tied to authoritarian ideas about gender roles.

Saoirse

The whinging about birth rates with zero discussion about making sure kids live safe and healthy lives after they're born reminds me of anti-abortionists. They just want to control women -- and bio-essentialize the category to only include able-bodied, uterus-having, straight, fertile ones.

FredShoey

Elon, what you mean is that there is not enough _cheap_ labor.

Danielle De Lano

Omg I’m always so delighted/terrified when the traveling petrol salesman shows up!