Today's Sterility Meme

What we are now discovering is that, at the population level, modernity selects systematically against itself. The key features of modernity – urbanism, affluence, secularism, the blurring of gender distinctions, and more time spent with strangers than with kin – all of these factors in combination shred fertility. Which means that progressivism, the political ideology that urges on the acceleration of modernisation, can best be understood as a sterility meme. When people first become modern, they have fewer children; when they adopt progressive ideology, they accelerate the process of modernisation and so have even fewer. Britain was the first country to experience an industrial revolution, meaning that Britain started hurtling towards modernity faster than anyone else. Today, only 3 per cent of the world’s population lives in a country whose fertility rate is not declining.⁠

—Louise Perry (Conservative commentator and the author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution).

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/modernity-is-making-you-sterile/

[TBC: “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein” (Genesis:9:7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
See All...). The world has set its heart on not multiplying. Consequently, the world is becoming less and less fruitful.]