As the article states, women are choosing to have fewer children. There are multiple ways to read this, and you can take the materialist theory of them just bei

As the article states, women are choosing to have fewer children. There are multiple ways to read this, and you can take the materialist theory of them just being caught up in their careers, but I tend to fall into a more cynical interpretation: humans are social creatures, and we are acutely tuned in to threats around us. I think humans are becoming increasingly aware, consciously or unconsciously, that we are killing ourselves through destroying the planet and that there is no way we can sustain further population growth. Whether “focusing on your career” is the chicken or the egg in this situation is up for interpretation.