Alex Berenson has offered some material on the rapid decline of births seen right across the developed world. The article is of interest for covering the decline of births in the advanced Asian countries, while most of our attention has been on the West. Thus, South Korea and Taiwan are on the road to demographic death, with far below replacement level birth rates, having less than one child on average. This is interesting, as most thought by Western theorists, especially conservatives, have pinned the blame upon the rise of Leftist values such as feminism. That is a quite reasonable hypothesis, but it cannot be the full truth for the entire world, as the example of Asia shows.
My own hypothesis is that there is no one cause of the birth dearth, but it is a multi-variable caused phenomenon, where Leftist values feature, but it is clear that the culture of materialism over spiritual and religious values also has much to do with it. People may choose material things over children. But, even people wanting more children face economic problems. Indeed, the present cost of living crisis, and rent housing crisis will make matters even worse as young people will not even be able to get living space, let alone have children. As Berenson rightly notes, “nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake.”