Stephen J Shaw: Are falling birth rates a crisis for humanity?
The Interview27 Touko 2024

Stephen J Shaw: Are falling birth rates a crisis for humanity?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the data scientist Stephen J Shaw, who argues that humanity faces a looming demographic crisis, with falling birth rates having dire economic and social consequences. But in an age of economic turbulence and ecological concern, do we really want to be promoting the idea that humans need to have more babies?

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