Religion Enables Spacefaring Futures

If sustained low fertility becomes the dominant Great Filter, then technological prowess alone cannot produce long‑lived, spacefaring civilizations; cultural institutions that commit people to high‑cooperation, pro‑natal norms—arguably religion—may be the missing lever. The article argues that rebuilding religio‑moral frameworks that valorize family and future‑orientation is a practical policy axis to avert demographic collapse. — Recasts population decline as a problem of cultural institutional design (not just economics or technology), pushing public debate toward questions about the role of religion, norms, and value systems in national strategy and family policy.