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Forget everything you know about an exploding world population.
The sad truth is, our birthrate is plummeting globally to the point where there soon won't be enough young workers to take care of the aging population.
What happens then? Can you financially incentivise people to have kids? Should we be thinking harder about immigration?
And why does this subject - and its pronatalist rhetoric - so often become the domaine of the authoritarian right?
We'll hear from Elon, Jordan and Jacob - about why we should all be having more babies.
Plus Robert Colville and Stephen J Shaw.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly and Arvind Badewal
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