Rose Rimler

Actually, you told me I had to be here.

No, but it's a very interesting topic.

Although I've noticed, Blythe, that you in particular, you seem like particularly obsessed with it.

So why?

Why does this like grab you so much?

I thought it was just like, I thought you were just going to say the U.S.

and some parts of Europe.

Okay, and that's 2.1 because some of these pregnancies, the person who's born will die, won't have their own children.

It's kind of like a little bit of an insurance policy, I guess.

So if you're looking at the population of Earth, the human population of Earth, we're good.

Okay, but is that a bad thing?

Because you used to hear a lot about people worrying about overpopulation.

Basically saying the stuff we need to do to reduce emissions has to be done before we'd start to actually use fewer resources.

Oh, wow.

That's, now that you told me what to, I understand that that's really low now.

That's actually a very neutral, somewhat flattering term.

So much better than like old maid or whatever.

So, I mean, you go to college, you get a higher education, you become a dentist or a lawyer or whatever, but then you still got to go home and, like, do all the cooking and cleaning and child caring?

That's the expectation, right?

There's like these barriers to having a kid.