Do you feel lonely? If so, you’re not alone. The number of people who lack meaningful human connection, intimacy, love, or friendship, has been ever creeping up. According to self-reported statistics, it has doubled in the past 50 years. With it, has come deaths of despair: drug overdose, suicide, and mental illness have accelerated. As Democritus observed millennia ago, “Life is not worth living for the man who has not even one good friend.” Take that as a cold numerical fact, and perh...| Palladium Magazine
Birth rates are falling much faster than many dominant narratives imply. The global fertility rate for all of Latin America and the Caribbean fell below the replacement rate of 2.1 babies per woman in 2019. India will achieve that status in 2024. China is expected to be at half its current population by 2066. First-generation immigrants to the US fell below the replacement rate in 2019. Already, 115 countries representing about half the world’s population are beneath replacement, and by the...| Palladium Magazine