# Declining Birth Rates and the Future of Civilization

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120427380137476516
- Source account: [@XFreeze](https://x.com/XFreeze)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:33
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zmK62jkzDsKt/en/declining-birth-rates-and-the-future-of-civilization

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zmK62jkzDsKt/en/declining-birth-rates-and-the-future-of-civilization) And then one of my, my, my favorite sort of but maybe less obvious things to be concerned about is, is the birth rate. You know, I think it's important that people have enough babies to sup- support civilization, and, and we don't sort of dwindle away.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zmK62jkzDsKt/en/declining-birth-rates-and-the-future-of-civilization?t=13) And, you know, because they say like, you know, civilization might die with a bang or with a whimper.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zmK62jkzDsKt/en/declining-birth-rates-and-the-future-of-civilization?t=19) Um, and, and if we, if we don't have enough kids, then we will die with a, a, a whimper in adult diapers. And that would be depressing. Make more babies.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/zmK62jkzDsKt/en/declining-birth-rates-and-the-future-of-civilization?t=27) And, and-- Yes, make more babies. At least make enough babies to have sustained the population.