There is a paradox in demographic strategy: if countries continue having many children and growing population they face resource exhaustion, but if they don't have children and don't maintain a young consumer cohort, they exhaust the tax base and cannot support an aging population, making them 'doomed where the paradox is always going to triple up.'

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Speaker

Quentin Hardy

Evidence Quote

If we kept having children you get resource exhaustion. If we didn't have children we're also kind of doomed

Source

Peter Zeihan: Mapping the Collapse of GlobalizationCommonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:34:46 PM

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