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What if we just believed young people when they say it’s because of climate change and being broke?

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Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

n.prCan smartphones help explain the drop in birth rates?Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Gene Okerlund

@malort.bsky.social

14 June

I’d shove my face into distraction of any kind if the prospects of the future are bleak. I’ve been through enough therapy to know what that’s about. It’s not entirely unhealthy. Also, should we be obsessed with higher birth rates? Seems possibly white-coded.

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

It absolutely is healthy. If you can’t even pay your own expenses and you’re worried about a quickly warming planet that people in power refuse to take seriously, not having kids is a responsible course of action.

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