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The Jordan Harbinger Show

1180: Dean Spears | The Quiet Apocalypse of Global Depopulation

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Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.8 • 12.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Birth rates are crashing worldwide. After the Spike author Dean Spears reveals why depopulation — not overpopulation — threatens humanity's future.

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1180

What We Discuss with Dean Spears:

  • Global depopulation is coming. Birth rates are falling worldwide and will soon drop below replacement level, causing population to peak then decline rapidly within decades.
  • Depopulation won't solve climate change. Environmental problems are solved by changing what people do, not reducing population. Timing doesn't align with climate urgency.
  • Government birth rate policies largely fail. Of 26 countries with birth rates below 1.9, none have returned above 2.0 despite various incentives and programs.
  • Fewer people means fewer innovations. People generate the ideas and technologies that solve problems. Depopulation reduces humanity's capacity for progress.
  • Start conversations about population stabilization. Rather than endless decline, we can work toward stabilizing population and making parenting more feasible and fair.
  • And much more...

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The population is a huge ship, slow to turn.

1:02.8

If you have a kid today,

1:04.6

they're going to be deciding whether or not to have a kid

1:07.2

in, say, 30 years, right?

1:09.5

And 30 years from now is when, you know, decarbonization needs to be well underway or

1:17.3

maybe done, right?

1:18.8

So the timing of population decline just doesn't line up with the urgency of what needs to happen

1:25.8

on climate change.

1:30.6

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