Blythe Terrell

You have a smaller society, but it's stable.

Right.

And nobody that I talked to thought that humanity was in danger of going extinct anytime soon.

That crossed off my list of things that keep me up at night.

So I think you safely can.

There's actually another thing that makes this not feel like a crisis to me.

And that is that, by and large, lots of people still do want kids, right?

And actually, there was this, a lot of scientists pointed me to this big UN report that said that on average, people want more kids than they are currently having.

Like, they were like, the real crisis is actually people can't have the kids they want.

And I was like, well, then this is not a crisis of desire.

So to me, weirdly, it kind of leaves me a little more optimistic, actually.

At least that we're not headed toward, like, children of men, if you remember that famous movie, right?

It's like, no children anywhere.

Yeah, I guess it's better than that.

The bar.

That's where the bar is.

That's a pretty low bar, but okay.

But I am a little bit like, okay, well, people want to have kids.

I am a little bit like if we can help them figure out how to make that happen, that does make me feel better.

What about you?