Mads Larsen

Just to amuse me, could you say, could you confirm to the audience that 1.4 means that we lose a third of the generation? And she did that. She finally did that. Yes, that is true. But you can't portray this so negatively because then you will empower the political forces on the right.

So there's this belief that if we talk about low fertility, there are going to be these people on the right that will deprive women of their reproductive rights and we will be taken back to the dark ages. And at least in Norway, the risk of that is infinitesimally small. Even our right-wing party are, from an international perspective, feminist social democrats. So I don't think...

So there's this belief that if we talk about low fertility, there are going to be these people on the right that will deprive women of their reproductive rights and we will be taken back to the dark ages. And at least in Norway, the risk of that is infinitesimally small. Even our right-wing party are, from an international perspective, feminist social democrats. So I don't think...

So there's this belief that if we talk about low fertility, there are going to be these people on the right that will deprive women of their reproductive rights and we will be taken back to the dark ages. And at least in Norway, the risk of that is infinitesimally small. Even our right-wing party are, from an international perspective, feminist social democrats. So I don't think...

I don't think us having this discussion and taking things seriously is going to turn us into the handmaid's tale. But this is a common assumption. Also, some of them, they're afraid that they will be perceived as racist, that if we are concerned about Western countries having low fertility, that would be inappropriate because there are so many people in Africa.

I don't think us having this discussion and taking things seriously is going to turn us into the handmaid's tale. But this is a common assumption. Also, some of them, they're afraid that they will be perceived as racist, that if we are concerned about Western countries having low fertility, that would be inappropriate because there are so many people in Africa.

I don't think us having this discussion and taking things seriously is going to turn us into the handmaid's tale. But this is a common assumption. Also, some of them, they're afraid that they will be perceived as racist, that if we are concerned about Western countries having low fertility, that would be inappropriate because there are so many people in Africa.

So they have all these strange fears.

So they have all these strange fears.

So they have all these strange fears.

I wouldn't take the content that seriously. This is the beginning of a debate that is very confusing. And at that phase of the debate, personal attacks, anger, those kind of accusations tend to be quite common. So over the last months, I've been called a misogynist, a fascist, because

I wouldn't take the content that seriously. This is the beginning of a debate that is very confusing. And at that phase of the debate, personal attacks, anger, those kind of accusations tend to be quite common. So over the last months, I've been called a misogynist, a fascist, because

I wouldn't take the content that seriously. This is the beginning of a debate that is very confusing. And at that phase of the debate, personal attacks, anger, those kind of accusations tend to be quite common. So over the last months, I've been called a misogynist, a fascist, because

because I bring up this problem, people assume I want the government to force women to have sex with and have children with incels. Those accusations of racism or wanting to empower the far right, it's just the confusing beginning face of a really important debate, and that will only last for so long.

because I bring up this problem, people assume I want the government to force women to have sex with and have children with incels. Those accusations of racism or wanting to empower the far right, it's just the confusing beginning face of a really important debate, and that will only last for so long.

because I bring up this problem, people assume I want the government to force women to have sex with and have children with incels. Those accusations of racism or wanting to empower the far right, it's just the confusing beginning face of a really important debate, and that will only last for so long.

Once people work their way through that and throw out those accusations, I don't know if they're that serious when they accuse people of being racist.

Once people work their way through that and throw out those accusations, I don't know if they're that serious when they accuse people of being racist.

Once people work their way through that and throw out those accusations, I don't know if they're that serious when they accuse people of being racist.

Well, people are people and in the cultural moment that we live now, those kind of accusations are the weapons available. So when I presented my research for the Norwegian Fertility Institute a few weeks ago, They had been so amazed at how I, this summer, had been able to elevate this debate about low fertility to the national level and trigger a really fiery debate on it.