Mads Larsen

Well, we don't know. That is the thing about this. Experts actually do not know what the precise factors are that have created the situation. They don't understand why people aren't... They know that urbanization is a factor, individualization, but how they play in, how much they affect things, it's still a puzzle. And especially, what of these factors could be amenable to policy?

What is it we have to do? What kind of society do we have to move towards to make people again having children? It's been very under-researched. That is among other things. I'm part of a group of researchers that are applying for funds now, and we want to actually find this out. We want to study female and male mating reproductive psychology.

What is it we have to do? What kind of society do we have to move towards to make people again having children? It's been very under-researched. That is among other things. I'm part of a group of researchers that are applying for funds now, and we want to actually find this out. We want to study female and male mating reproductive psychology.

What is it we have to do? What kind of society do we have to move towards to make people again having children? It's been very under-researched. That is among other things. I'm part of a group of researchers that are applying for funds now, and we want to actually find this out. We want to study female and male mating reproductive psychology.

and see what are the actual factors, not what people say are the factors, but through longitudinal studies to uncover what the actual elements are that motivate or demotivate reproduction. And especially within evolutionary psychology, this has been so under-researched over the last few decades.

and see what are the actual factors, not what people say are the factors, but through longitudinal studies to uncover what the actual elements are that motivate or demotivate reproduction. And especially within evolutionary psychology, this has been so under-researched over the last few decades.

and see what are the actual factors, not what people say are the factors, but through longitudinal studies to uncover what the actual elements are that motivate or demotivate reproduction. And especially within evolutionary psychology, this has been so under-researched over the last few decades.

There's been so many valuable contributions on dating and relationships and parental investment, partner preferences, sex, Everything within mating except its ultimate function, which is to reproduce. That's been enormously under-researched, which is puzzling. And now it's become existentially important to understand these mechanisms.

There's been so many valuable contributions on dating and relationships and parental investment, partner preferences, sex, Everything within mating except its ultimate function, which is to reproduce. That's been enormously under-researched, which is puzzling. And now it's become existentially important to understand these mechanisms.

There's been so many valuable contributions on dating and relationships and parental investment, partner preferences, sex, Everything within mating except its ultimate function, which is to reproduce. That's been enormously under-researched, which is puzzling. And now it's become existentially important to understand these mechanisms.

Yeah, that's why the leading researchers believe that this unfortunately is a self-reinforcing process. Like I mentioned, Norwegian women want to have 2.4 children, but they have 1.4. Now, Now that it's fell to 1.4, the next generation will probably want to have quite a bit fewer than 2.4. And we've seen this through the generations. So we're not able to fulfill our fertility ideals.

Yeah, that's why the leading researchers believe that this unfortunately is a self-reinforcing process. Like I mentioned, Norwegian women want to have 2.4 children, but they have 1.4. Now, Now that it's fell to 1.4, the next generation will probably want to have quite a bit fewer than 2.4. And we've seen this through the generations. So we're not able to fulfill our fertility ideals.

Yeah, that's why the leading researchers believe that this unfortunately is a self-reinforcing process. Like I mentioned, Norwegian women want to have 2.4 children, but they have 1.4. Now, Now that it's fell to 1.4, the next generation will probably want to have quite a bit fewer than 2.4. And we've seen this through the generations. So we're not able to fulfill our fertility ideals.

And this puts us in a spiral that just entails us as society circling the drain until there's no one left, unless we're able to turn this around.

And this puts us in a spiral that just entails us as society circling the drain until there's no one left, unless we're able to turn this around.

And this puts us in a spiral that just entails us as society circling the drain until there's no one left, unless we're able to turn this around.

Yeah, no, that's why I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation how unfortunate it is that the main Norwegian researchers on this, they're just waiting for women around 40 to have an unprecedented number of baby because... I mean, the leading international experts are pretty uniform. They don't all agree, but they're pretty uniform. This isn't turning around.

Yeah, no, that's why I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation how unfortunate it is that the main Norwegian researchers on this, they're just waiting for women around 40 to have an unprecedented number of baby because... I mean, the leading international experts are pretty uniform. They don't all agree, but they're pretty uniform. This isn't turning around.

Yeah, no, that's why I mentioned at the beginning of our conversation how unfortunate it is that the main Norwegian researchers on this, they're just waiting for women around 40 to have an unprecedented number of baby because... I mean, the leading international experts are pretty uniform. They don't all agree, but they're pretty uniform. This isn't turning around.

They say that it's more likely that it continues to decline than that it tapers off or goes up again. So if we don't turn this around, likely it will only get worse. And this circling of the drain is just going to go faster and faster until our societies collapse.