Birthstrike Math Fails

Because emissions decouple from population in updated DICE models, fertility politics shift. New modeling finds minimal warming differences between depopulation and replacement-level fertility and shows larger populations raise innovation and per-capita GDP, undermining climate-driven antinatalism. — This reframes climate communication, pronatalist policy, and demographic strategy by weakening claims that childbearing is environmentally harmful, influencing how governments, NGOs, and media address fertility decline.