practical, meaningful change
Demographic collapse is inevitable; the most we can do is help communities, governments, and individuals prepare and mitigate damage. As such, our focus is on efforts that contribute to pragmatic and concrete solutions. These include:
We approach our work and interventions from a pluralistic perspective optimized around long-term human flourishing. We are vehemently against any efforts that limit reproductive freedom or curtail cultural autonomy (meaning we also support the choice to not have children and want to protect people’s right to be single and/or childless).
If Demographic Collapse is an iceberg, we’re on the Titanic. There’s no turning around; we just need to get as many people on lifeboats as possible.
We’re in fact witnessing the only historically, on record collapse of birth rates that’s not related to disease or famine or something adverse. It’s a perverse collapse. It’s a collapse that’s occurred precisely in a time of rising wealth and prosperity. That’s really the thing that has to be untangled.
“Don’t worry about sounding gloomy (or, for that matter, awkward). Demographic collapse is not inevitable, and sounding the alarm now will make a big difference.”
“I learned that there is nothing deterministic about the trend to smaller families. The choice to have children is still possible today, but it is conditioned by deeper values—faith and a particular way of looking at what a good life is.”
Sound the Alarm
We engage with journalists, influencers, CEOs, policymakers, religious leaders, community organizers, and individuals on the subject of demographic collapse, pronatalism, and fertility ratio cascades, countering narratives downplaying the severity of these issues.
PROMOTE SOLUIONS
We share evidence-based, low-cost, non-coercive interventions that can be executed on an individual, community, or nation-wide level to both bolster fertility rates and reduce harm caused by demographic collapse and fertility ratio cascades.
PROMOTE CULTURE
In the developed world, culture is the biggest factor influencing fertility. We work to create, reinforce, and protect cultures that produce flourishing, high-fertility families in the face of modernity through offline events, online communities, resources, books, interactive games, and podcasts.
PROVIDE CONNECTIONS
We connect families, parents, and aspiring parents with resources (such as overviews of state-based and federal resources available to families in the USA), community, and support through our website, discord server, offline events, and extended network.
Time is Running Out
Whether you are gladly child-free or an avid pronatalist, you likely care about functioning infrastructure, working police forces, and the continuation of essential social services providing security, food, medical care, and housing to the most vulnerable people in society.
If we do not adequately address demographic collapse and the dependency ratio cascades it triggers, hundreds of millions of people will suffer.
